Design of a simulation of atmospheric sunbeams

  • Authors:
  • Joseph Hura;Richard Hall

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ICCOMP'06 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Computer graphics researchers have made significant progress in modelling clouds and light. However, for a model of atmospheric sunbeams to have any pseudo-physical basis, it is necessary for these two classes of models to interact. In this paper we review each of these classes and design a model for offline rendering of sunbeams. Applications could include photorealistic rendering of outdoor scenes for computer generated movies using high-performance computing.