Pre-convolved Radiance Caching

dc.contributor.authorScherzer, Danielen_US
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Chuongen_US
dc.contributor.authorRitschel, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorSeidel, Hans-Peteren_US
dc.contributor.editorFredo Durand and Diego Gutierrezen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T07:35:22Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T07:35:22Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThe incident indirect light over a range of image pixels is often coherent. Two common approaches to exploit this inter-pixel coherence to improve rendering performance are Irradiance Caching and Radiance Caching. Both compute incident indirect light only for a small subset of pixels (the cache), and later interpolate between pixels. Irradiance Caching uses scalar values that can be interpolated efficiently, but cannot account for shading variations caused by normal and reflectance variation between cache items. Radiance Caching maintains directional information, e. g., to allow highlights between cache items, but at the cost of storing and evaluating a Spherical Harmonics (SH) function per pixel. The arithmetic and bandwidth cost for this evaluation is linear in the number of coefficients and can be substantial. In this paper, we propose a method to replace it by an efficient per-cache item pre-filtering based on MIP maps - such as previously done for environment maps - leading to a single constant-time lookup per pixel. Additionally, per-cache item geometry statistics stored in distance-MIP maps are used to improve the quality of each pixel's lookup. Our approximate interactive global illumination approach is an order of magnitude faster than Radiance Caching with Phong BRDFs and can be combined with Monte Carlo-raytracing, Point-based Global Illumination or Instant Radiosity.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume31
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03134.x
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03134.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.7 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectThree Dimensional Graphics and Realismen_US
dc.subjectColoren_US
dc.subjectshadingen_US
dc.subjectshadowingen_US
dc.subjectand textureen_US
dc.titlePre-convolved Radiance Cachingen_US
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