Imperfect shadow maps for efficient computation of indirect illumination

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ritschel, T ^a   Grosch, T ^a   Kim, M H ^b   Seidel, H P ^a   Dachsbacher, C ^c   Kautz, J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Real time rendering; Visibility

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC SCENES; EFFICIENT COMPUTATIONS; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIGH FREQUENCIES; INDIRECT ILLUMINATIONS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTATIONS; MASK ERRORS; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SHADOW MAPS; TIME FRAMES; VIRTUAL POINTS; VISIBILITY QUERIES;

OPTICAL PROJECTORS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 57749168620     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1409060.1409082     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. ANNEN, T., DONG, Z., MERTENS, T., BEKAERT, P., SEIDEL, H.-P., AND KAUTZ, J. 2008. Real-Time, All-Frequency Shadows in Dynamic Scenes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 27, 3, 34:1-34:8.
2. ARIKAN, O., FORSYTH, D. A., AND O'BRIEN, J. F. 2005. Fast and Detailed Approximate Global Illumination by Irradiance Decomposition. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 24,3, 1108-1114.
3. BRABEC, S., ANNEN, T., AND SEIDEL, H.-P. 2002. Shadow Mapping for Hemispherical and Omnidirectional Light Sources. In Proc. of Computer Graphics International, 397-408.
4. BUNNELL, M. 2005. Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting. In GPU Gems 2, M. Pharr, Ed. Addison Wesley, 223-233.
5. CHRISTENSEN, P., LAUR, D., FONG, J., WOOTEN, W., AND BATALI, D. 2003. Ray Differentials and Multiresolution Geometry Caching for Distribution Ray Tracing in Complex Scenes. In Proc. of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 543-552.
6. COHEN-OR, D., CHRYSANTHOU, Y., SILVA, C., AND DURAND, F. 2003. A Survey of Visibility for Walkthrough Applications. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 9, 3, A\2-A3\.
7. CROW, F. 1977. Shadow Algorithms for Computer Graphics. In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, 242-248.
8. DACHSBACHER, C., AND STAMMINGER, M. 2005. Reflective Shadow Maps. In Proc. of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 203-213.
9. DACHSBACHER, C., AND STAMMINGER, M. 2006. Splatting Indirect Illumination. In Proc. of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 93-100.
10. DACHSBACHER, C., VOGELGSANG, C., AND STAMMINGER, M. 2003. Sequential Point Trees. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 22, 3, 657-662.
11. DACHSBACHER, C., STAMMINGER, M., DRETTAKIS, G., AND DURAND, F. 2007. Implicit Visibility and Antiradiance for Interactive Global Illumination. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 26, 3.
12. DONG, Z., KAUTZ, J., THEOBALT, C., AND SEIDEL, H.-P. 2007. Interactive Global Illumination Using Implicit Visibility. In Pacific Graphics, 77-86.
13. DUTRÉ, P., BALA, K., AND BEKAERT, R 2006. Advanced Global Illumination. AK Peters.
14. GREEN, P., KAUTZ, J., AND DURAND, F. 2007. Efficient Reflectance and Visibility Approximations for Environment Map Rendering. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics) 26, 3, 495-502.
15. GROSSMAN, J., AND DALLY, W. 1998. Point Sample Rendering. In Proc. of the Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, 181-192.
16. GUENNEBAUD, G., BARTHE, L., AND PAULIN, M. 2006. Real-time Soft Shadow Mapping by Backprojection. In Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 227-234.
17. HOPPE, H. 1996. Progressive Meshes. In SIGGRAPH '96, 99-108.
18. IWASAKI, K., DOBASHI, Y., YOSHIMOTO, F., AND NISHITA, T. 2007. Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Dynamic Scenes Taking into Account Light Interreflection. In Proc. of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 35-44.
19. KELLER, A. 1997. Instant Radiosity. In SIGGRAPH '97, 49-56.
20. KOZLOWSKI, O., AND KAUTZ, J. 2007. Is Accurate Occlusion of Glossy Reflections Necessary? In Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, 91-98.
21. LAINE, S., SARANSAARI, H., KONTKANEN, J., LEHTINEN, J., AND ALLA, T. 2007. Incremental. Instant Radiosity for Real-Time Indirect Illumination. In Proc. of the Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 277-286.
22. MARROQUIM, R., KRAUS, M., AND CAVALCANTI, P. R. 2007. Efficient Point-Based Rendering Using Image Reconstruction. In Symposium on Point-Based Graphics 2007, 189-203.
23. RUSHMEIER, H., PATTERSON, C., AND VEERASAMY, A. 1993. Geometric Simplification for Indirect Illumination Calculations. In Graphics Interface, 227-236.
24. SEGOVIA, B., IEHL, J.-C., MITANCHEY, R., AND PÉROCHE, B. 2006. Non-interleaved Deferred Shading of Interleaved Sample Patterns. In Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Graphics Hardware, 53-60.
25. SILLION, F., AND DRETTAKIS, G. 1995. Feature-based Control of Visibility Error: A Multi-Resolution Clustering Algorithm for Global Illumination. In SIGGRAPH '95, 145-152.
26. SILLION, F. 1995. A Unified Hierarchical Algorithm for Global Illumination with Scattering Volumes and Object Clusters. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 1, 3, 240-254.
27. SLOAN, P.-P., KAUTZ, J., AND SNYDER, J. 2002. Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-Time Rendering in Dynamic, Low-Frequency Lighting Environments. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 21, 3, 527-536.
28. SLOAN, R-R, GOVINDARAJU, N., NOWROUZEZAHRAI, D., AND SNYDER, J. 2007. Image-Based Proxy Accumulation for Real-Time Soft Global Illumination. In Pacific Graphics, 97-105.
29. STOKES, W. A., FERWERDA, J. A., WALTER, B., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 2004. Perceptual Illumination Components: A New Approach to Efficient, High Quality Global Illumination Rendering. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 23, 3, 742-749.
30. TABELLION, E., AND LAMORLETTE, A. 2004. An Approximate Global Illumination System for Computer Generated Films. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 23, 3, 469-476.
31. WALD, I., KOLLIG, T., BENTHIN, C., KELLER, A., AND SLUSALLEK, P. 2002. Interactive global illumination. In Proc. of Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 9-20.
32. WALTER, B., FERNANDEZ, S., ARBREE, A., BALA, K., DONIKIAN, M., AND GREENBERG, D. P. 2005. Lightcuts: A Scalable Approach to Illumination. ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH) 24, 3, 1098-1107.
33. WAND, M., FISCHER, M., PETER, I., AUF DER HEIDE, F. M., AND STRASSER, W. 2001. The Randomized z-Buffer Algorithm: Interactive Rendering of Highly Complex Scenes. In SIGGRAPH '01, 361-370.
34. WANG, R., ZHU, J.-J., AND HUMPHREYS, G. 2007. Precomputed Radiance Transfer for Real-time Indirect Lighting using A Spectral Mesh Basis. In Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 13-21.
35. WILLIAMS, L. 1978. Casting Curved Shadows on Curved Surfaces. In Computer Graphics (Proc. of SIGGRAPH '78), 270-274.
36. WYMAN, C. 2008. Hierarchical Caustic Maps. In Proc. of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 163-171.