Modular radiance transfer

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Publication Type dissertation
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing
Author Loos, Bradford J.
Title Modular radiance transfer
Date 2015-05
Description Real-time global illumination is the next frontier in real-time rendering. In an attempt to generate realistic images, games have followed the film industry into physically based shading and will soon begin integrating global illumination techniques. Traditional methods require too much memory and too much time to compute for real-time use. With Modular and Delta Radiance Transfer we precompute a scene-independent, low-frequency basis that allows us to calculate complex indirect lighting calculations in a much lower dimensional subspace with a reduced memory footprint and real-time execution. The results are then applied as a light map on many different scenes. To improve the low frequency results, we also introduce a novel screen space ambient occlusion technique that allows us to generate a smoother result with fewer samples. These three techniques, low and high frequency used together, provide a viable indirect lighting solution that can be run in milliseconds on today's hardware, providing a useful new technique for indirect lighting in real-time graphics.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Global illumination; Graphics
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Doctor of Philosophy
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Bradford J. Loos 2015
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 1,701,141 Bytes
Identifier etd3/id/3730
ARK ark:/87278/s6157rc7
Setname ir_etd
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6157rc7