Rendering trees with indirect lighting in real time

    Authors

    K. Boulanger; K. Bouatouch;S. Pattanaik

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Comput. Graph. Forum

    Keywords

    Computer Science, Software Engineering

    Abstract

    High quality, lighting is one of the challenges for interactive tree rendering. To this end, this paper presents a lighting model allowing real-time rendering of trees with convincing indirect lighting. Rather than defining an empirical model to mimic lighting of real trees, we work at a lower level by modeling the spatial distribution of leaves and by assigning them probabilistic properties. We focus mainly on precise low-frequency lighting that our eyes are more sensitive to and we add high-frequency details afterwards. The resulting model is efficient and simple to implement on a GPU.

    Journal Title

    Computer Graphics Forum

    Volume

    27

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article; Proceedings Paper

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1189

    Last Page

    1198

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000258223600016

    ISSN

    0167-7055

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