INTERACTIVE RENDERING OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING IN PARTICIPATING MEDIA USING SEPARABLE PHASE FUNCTION

Zheng Gong, Zhimin Ren, Zhangye Wang, Qunsheng Peng

2007

Abstract

This paper presents an interactive method to compute multiple scattering in non-homogeneous participating media with an effective phase function approximation. The volume is represented by grids, which allows us to render dynamic scenes. We achieve interactive computation rate by factorizing the phase function in transport equation with singular value decomposition (SVD) and keeping only the first few low-order approximation terms. These terms are paired 2D incident-direction texture maps and 2D outgoing-direction texture maps. The complicated integral calculation of in-scattering in each rendering pass is efficiently approximated by simply retrieving data from textures. Graphics hardware is also employed for on-the-fly computation. Using the proposed algorithm, we demonstrate rendering of multiple scattering in dynamic scenes at interactive rates.

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Gong Z., Ren Z., Wang Z. and Peng Q. (2007). INTERACTIVE RENDERING OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING IN PARTICIPATING MEDIA USING SEPARABLE PHASE FUNCTION . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 978-972-8865-71-9, pages 262-268. DOI: 10.5220/0002084002620268


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp07,
author={Zheng Gong and Zhimin Ren and Zhangye Wang and Qunsheng Peng},
title={INTERACTIVE RENDERING OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING IN PARTICIPATING MEDIA USING SEPARABLE PHASE FUNCTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2007},
pages={262-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002084002620268},
isbn={978-972-8865-71-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,
TI - INTERACTIVE RENDERING OF MULTIPLE SCATTERING IN PARTICIPATING MEDIA USING SEPARABLE PHASE FUNCTION
SN - 978-972-8865-71-9
AU - Gong Z.
AU - Ren Z.
AU - Wang Z.
AU - Peng Q.
PY - 2007
SP - 262
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0002084002620268