Real-time wetting of Porous media

  • Authors:
  • Kevin Hnat;Damien Porquet;Stéphane Merillou;Djamchid Ghazanfarpour

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire XLIM UMR, Université de Limoges;Laboratoire XLIM UMR, Université de Limoges;Laboratoire XLIM UMR, Université de Limoges;Laboratoire XLIM UMR, Université de Limoges

  • Venue:
  • Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Studying light reflection properties is a crucial factor in achieving a high degree of realism in image synthesis. Considered as a challenge in itself, it becomes even more complicated when dealing with specific changes in appearance due to external factors. Among these changes, one of the most common is wetting: surfaces appear darker and more specular as their wetting level increase. Such a phenomenon is of great visual importance in outdoor scenes under rain falls, for example. This change in appearance is mainly due to the porous nature of surfaces. In this paper, we propose to handle a porous surface BRDF post-process model in real-time and to extend it to account for wetting, with simple and intuitive parameters.