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Adaptive Representation of Specular Light
Authors:Normand Brière  & Pierre Poulin
Affiliation:Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Universitéde Montréal, Canada
Abstract:Caustics produce beautiful and intriguing illumination patterns. However, their complex behavior makes them difficult to simulate accurately in all but the simplest configurations. To capture their appearance, we present an adaptive approach based upon light beams. Exploiting the coherence between the light rays forming a beam greatly reduces the number of samples required for precise illumination reconstruction. The beams characterize the light distribution due to interactions with specular surfaces in 3D space. They thus allow for the treatment of illumination within single-scattering participating media. A hierarchical structure enclosing the light beams possesses inherent properties to detect efficiently all beams reaching any 3D point, to adapt itself according to illumination effects in the final image, and to reduce memory consumption via caching.
Keywords:caustics  global illumination  ray tracing  wavefront  beam  shaft
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