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A rapid hierarchical rendering technique for translucent materials

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Henrik Wann Jensen,

Juan BuhlerAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 21, Issue 3

Pages 576 - 581

https://doi.org/10.1145/566654.566619

Published: 01 July 2002 Publication History

Abstract

This paper introduces an efficient two-pass rendering technique for translucent materials. We decouple the computation of irradianceat the surface from the evaluation of scattering inside the material.This is done by splitting the evaluation into two passes, where the first pass consists of computing the irradiance at selected points on the surface. The second pass uses a rapid hierarchical integration technique to evaluate a diffusion approximation based on the irradiance samples. This approach is substantially faster than previous methods for rendering translucent materials, and it has the advantage that it integrates seamlessly with both scanline rendering and global illumination methods. We show several images and animations from our implementation that demonstrate that the approach is both fast and robust, making it suitable for rendering translucent materials in production.

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A rapid hierarchical rendering technique for translucent materials
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing
    2. Rendering
      1. Reflectance modeling

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ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 21, Issue 3

July 2002

548 pages

ISSN:0730-0301

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DOI:10.1145/566654

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