Title

Visibility-Driven Progressive Volume Photon Tracing

Keywords

Global illumination; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Participating media; Rendering

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel approach to progressive photon-based volume rendering techniques. By making use of two Kd-trees (built in a preprocessing step) to store view beams (primary rays intersecting the medium) and visible points, our method allows to handle scenes with specular and refractive objects as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous participating media and does not require the storage of photon maps, which solves the memory management issue. These data structures are used to drive the photon shooting process by considering the photon visibility as an importance function (similarly to Hachisuka and Jensen in ACM Trans. Graph. 30(5):114:1-114:11, 2011) for scenes containing participating media. Finally, we demonstrate that our method can be easily combined with the most recent particle tracing approaches such as the one presented in Jarosz et al. (ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 30(6), 2011). © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Publication Date

9-1-2013

Publication Title

Visual Computer

Volume

29

Issue

9

Number of Pages

849-859

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-013-0845-x

Socpus ID

84887620238 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84887620238

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