Illumination and Shading

Computer Graphics
V - Semester
Unit – 4
Illumination and shading

K.A.Dhamotharan,
Assistant Professor ( Senior Grade)
Illumination and Shading
Illumination Vs. Shading
 Illumination (lighting) model: determine the color of
a surface point by simulating some light attributes.
 Shading model: applies the illumination models at a

set of points and colors the whole image.
Illumination (Lighting) Model
• To model the interaction of light with

surfaces to determine the final color &
brightness of the surface
– Global illumination
– Local illumination
Global Illumination
• Global Illumination models: take into account
the interaction of light from all the surfaces in
the scene.
Local illumination
• Only consider the light, the observer position,
and the object material properties
Basic Illumination Model
• Simple and fast method for calculating
surface intensity at a given point
• Lighting calculation are based on:
– The background lighting conditions
– The light source specification: color, position
Ambient light (background
light)
• The light that is the result from the light reflecting off
other surfaces in the environment
• A general level of brightness for a scene that is
independent of the light positions or surface
directions -> ambient light
• Has no direction
• Each light source has an ambient light contribution, Ia
• For a given surface, we can specify how much
ambient light the surface can reflect using an ambient
reflection coefficient : Ka (0 < Ka < 1)
Ambient Light
• So the amount of light that the surface
reflect is therefore
Iamb = Ka * Ia
Diffuse Light
• The illumination that a surface receives from

a light source and reflects equally in all
directions
• This type of reflection is called Lambertian
Reflection (thus, Lambertian surfaces)
• The brightness of the surface is indepenent of
the observer position (since the light is
reflected in all direction equally)
Lambert’s Law
• How much light the surface receives from a
light source depends on the angle between its
angle and the vector from the surface point to
the light (light vector)
• Lambert’s law: the radiant energy ’Id’ from a
small surface da for a given light source is:
Id = IL * cos)
IL : the intensity of the light source
 is the angle between the surface
normal (N) and light vector (L)
The Diffuse Component
• Surface’s material property: assuming that the
surface can reflect Kd (0<Kd<1), diffuse reflection
coefficient) amount of diffuse light:
Idiff = Kd * IL * cos)
If N and L are normalized, cos) = N*L
Idiff = Kd * IL * (N*L)
• The total diffuse reflection = ambient + diffuse
Idiff = Ka * Ia + Kd * IL * (N*L)
Examples
Sphere diffusely lighted from various angles !

Specular Light
 These are the bright spots on objects (such as polished
metal, apple ...)
 Light reflected from the surface unequally to all directions.
 The result of near total reflection of the incident light in a

concentrated region around the specular reflection angle
Phong’s Model for Specular
• How much reflection light you can see
depends on where you are
Phong Illumination Curves
Specular exponents are much larger than 1;
Values of 100 are not uncommon.
n : glossiness, rate of falloff
Specular Highlights
• Shiny surfaces change appearance when viewpoint is changed
• Specularities are caused by microscopically smooth surfaces.
• A mirror is a perfect specular reflector
Reflected Ray
N
L R
How to calculate R?
 
R + L = 2(N*L) N 
V
R = 2(N*L) N - L
2N(N•L)
L N(N•L) L L
R = 2N(N•L) - L
   
Project L onto N Double length of vector Subtract L

Half Vector
• An alternative way of computing phong
lighting is: Is = ks * Is * (N*H)n
• H (halfway vector): halfway between V

and L: (V+L)/2
N
L H
• Fuzzier highlight V
Phong Illumination
Moving Light
Change n
Putting It All Together
• Single Light (white light source)
Multiple Light Source
• IL: light intensity
• For multiple light sources

– Repeat the diffuse and specular calculations for each light source
– Add the components from all light sources
– The ambient term contributes only once
• The different reflectance coefficients can differ.
– Simple “metal”: ks and kd share material color,
– Simple plastic: ks is white
• Remember, when cosine is negative lighting term is zero!
OpenGL Materials
GLfloat white8[] = {.8, .8, .8, 1.}, white2 = {.2,.2,.2,1.},black={0.,0.,0.};
GLfloat mat_shininess[] = {50.}; /* Phong exponent */
glMaterialfv( GL_FRONT_AND_BACK,
GL_AMBIENT, black);
GL_DIFFUSE, white8);
GL_SPECULAR, white2);
GL_SHININESS, mat_shininess);
OpenGL Lighting
GLfloat white[] = {1., 1., 1., 1.};
GLfloat light0_position[] = {1., 1., 5., 0.}; /* directional light (w=0) */
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, light0_position);

glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_DIFFUSE, white);
glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPECULAR, white);
glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);
glEnable(GL_NORMALIZE); /* normalize normal vectors */

glLightModeli(GL_LIGHT_MODEL_TWO_SIDE, GL_TRUE);/* two-sided lighting*/
glEnable(GL_LIGHTING);
Shading Models for Polygons
 Constant Shading (flat shading)
 Compute illumination at any one point on the surface.

Use face or one normal from a pair of edges. Good for
far away light and viewer or if facets approximate
surface well.
 Per-Pixel Shading
 Compute illumination at every point on the surface.
 Interpolated Shading
 Compute illumination at vertices and interpolate color

Constant Shading
• Compute illumination only at one point on the
surface
• Okay to use if all of the following are true
– The object is not a curved (smooth) surface (e.g. a
polyhedron object)
– The light source is very far away (so N.L does not
change much across a polygon)
– The eye is very far away (so V.R does not change
much across a polygon)
– The surface is quite small (close to pixel size)
Un-lit
Flat Shading
Mach Band ?
Polygon Mesh Shading
• Shading each polygonal facet individually will not
generate an illusion of smooth curved surface
• Reason: polygons will have different colors along
the boundary, unfortunately, human perception
helps to even accentuate the discontinuity: mach
band effect
Mach Banding
Intensity change is exagerated
Dark facet looks darker and lighter looks even more lighter
Smooth Shading
• Need to have per-vertex normals
• Gouraud Shading
– Interpolate color across triangles
– Fast, supported by most of the graphics
accelerator cards
• Phong Shading
– Interpolate normals across triangles
– More accurate, but slow. Not widely supported by
hardware
Gouraud Shading
• Normals are computed at the polygon vertices
• If we only have per-face normals, the normal at each
vertex is the average of the normals of its adjacent
faces
• Intensity interpolation: linearly interpolate the pixel
intensity (color) across a polygon surface
Linear Interpolation
• Calculate the value of a point based on
the distances to the point’s two neighbor points
• If v1 and v2 are known, then
x = b/(a+b) * v1 + a/(a+b) * v2
Linear Interpolation in a
Triangle
• To determine the intensity (color)
of point P in the triangle,
• we will do:
• determine the intensity of 4 by
linearly interpolating between 1
and 2
• determine the intensity of 5 by
linearly interpolating between 2
and 3
• determine the intensity of P by
linear interpolating between 4
and 5
Mach Band ?
Image
Phong Shading Model
 Gouraud shading does not properly handle specular highlights,
specially when the n parameter is large (small highlight).
Reason: colors are interpolated.
Solution: (Phong Shading Model)
1. Compute averaged normal at vertices.
2. Interpolate normals along edges and scan-lines. (component by

component)
3. Compute per-pixel illumination.

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Illumination and shading

 Shading model: applies the illumination models at a

• To model the interaction of light with

• The illumination that a surface receives from

Sphere diffusely lighted from various angles !

 Light reflected from the surface unequally to all directions.

 The result of near total reflection of the incident light in a

Project L onto N Double length of vector Subtract L

• H (halfway vector): halfway between V

• For multiple light sources

glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_POSITION, light0_position);

glEnable(GL_NORMALIZE); /* normalize normal vectors */

 Compute illumination at any one point on the surface.

 Compute illumination at every point on the surface.

 Compute illumination at vertices and interpolate color

Reason: colors are interpolated.

Solution: (Phong Shading Model)

1. Compute averaged normal at vertices.

2. Interpolate normals along edges and scan-lines. (component by

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