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Virtual spherical lights for many-light rendering of glossy scenes

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Jaroslav Křivánek,

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SIGGRAPH Asia '09: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers

Article No.: 143, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1661412.1618489

Published: 01 December 2009 Publication History

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In this paper, we aim to lift the accuracy limitations of many-light algorithms by introducing a new light type, the virtual spherical light (VSL). The illumination contribution of a VSL is computed over a non-zero solid angle, thus eliminating the illumination spikes that virtual point lights used in traditional many-light methods are notorious for. The VSL enables application of many-light approaches in scenes with glossy materials and complex illumination that could previously be rendered only by much slower algorithms. By combining VSLs with the matrix row-column sampling algorithm, we achieve high-quality images in one to four minutes, even in scenes where path tracing or photon mapping take hours to converge.

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These are the HDR versions of the results in the paper, in EXR format. The files should have self-explanatory names. The files *.vsl.exr, *.vpl.exr and *.pt.exr show indirect-only illumination computed using VSLs, VPLs and path tracing, while *.fullvsl.exr, *.fullvpl.exr and *.fullpt.exr have direct illumination added to them. Direct illumination is in *.direct.exr. Additional images shown in Figure 2 and 3 of the paper can also be found here.

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Virtual spherical lights for many-light rendering of glossy scenes
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing

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