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Interactive rendering of translucent deformable objects

Authors:

Philippe Bekaert,

Hans-Peter Seidelz,

Frank Van ReethAuthors Info & Claims

EGRW '03: Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics workshop on Rendering

Pages 130 - 140

Published: 25 June 2003 Publication History

Abstract

Realistic rendering of materials such as milk, fruits, wax, marble, and so on, requires the simulation of subsurface scattering of light. This paper presents an algorithm for plausible reproduction of subsurface scattering effects. Unlike previously proposed work, our algorithm allows to interactively change lighting, viewpoint, subsurface scattering properties, as well as object geometry.The key idea of our approach is to use a hierarchical boundary element method to solve the integral describing subsurface scattering when using a recently proposed analytical BSSRDF model. Our approach is inspired by hierarchical radiosity with clustering. The success of our approach is in part due to a semi-analytical integration method that allows to compute needed point-to-patch form-factor like transport coefficients efficiently and accurately where other methods fail.Our experiments show that high-quality renderings of translucent objects consisting of tens of thousands of polygons can be obtained from scratch in fractions of a second. An incremental update algorithm further speeds up rendering after material or geometry changes.

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Interactive rendering of translucent deformable objects
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics

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EGRW '03: Proceedings of the 14th Eurographics workshop on Rendering

June 2003

320 pages

ISBN:3905673037

Conference Chairs:
Philip Dutré
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Frank Suykens
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Per H. Christensen
Pixar Animation Studios
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Daniel Cohen-Or
Tel Aviv University

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