Partial, multi-scale precomputed radiance transfer

  • Authors:
  • Tamás Umenhoffer;László Szirmay-Kalos;László Szécsi;Balázs Tóth;Mateu Sbert

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Budapest;TU Budapest;TU Budapest;TU Budapest;U of Girona

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents a real-time global illumination method for quasi-static scenes illuminated by arbitrary, dynamic light sources. In order to maintain real-time frame-rates, the light transport problem is decomposed to low-frequency and high-frequency parts. The part that has low-frequency characteristics both in the temporal and in the spatial domains is pre-computed. Due to the low-frequency properties this solution can be compressed by clustered PCA without significant reduction of the accuracy. The spatial high-frequency but temporal low-frequency parts are pre-computed on small-scale using a modified ambient occlusion/obscurances method. The temporally high-frequency components are obtained on the fly. This way we can combine the advantages of pre-computation aided methods and real-time rendering.