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Level-of-detail representation of bidirectional texture functions for real-time rendering

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Sung-Hsiang Chao,

Yung-Yu Chuang,

Ming OuhyoungAuthors Info & Claims

I3D '05: Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

Pages 187 - 194

https://doi.org/10.1145/1053427.1053458

Published: 03 April 2005 Publication History

Abstract

This paper presents a new technique for rendering bidirectional texture functions (BTFs) at different levels of detail (LODs). Our method first decomposes each BTF image into multiple subbands with a Laplacian pyramid. Each vector of Laplacian coefficients of a texel at the same level is regarded as a Laplacian bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF). These vectors are then further compressed by applying principal components analysis (PCA). At the rendering stage, the LOD parameter for each pixel is calculated according to the distance from the viewpoint to the surface. Our rendering algorithm uses this parameter to determine how many levels of BTF Laplacian pyramid are required for rendering. Under the same sampling resolution, a BTF gradually transits to a BRDF as the camera moves away from the surface. Our method precomputes this transition and uses it for multiresolution BTF rendering. Our Laplacian pyramid representation allows real-time anti-aliased rendering of BTFs using graphics hardware. In addition to provide visually satisfactory multiresolution rendering for BTFs, our method has a comparable compression rate to the available single-resolution BTF compression techniques.

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Level-of-detail representation of bidirectional texture functions for real-time rendering
1. Computing methodologies
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    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing
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I3D '05: Proceedings of the 2005 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

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DOI:10.1145/1053427

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