Multi-image based photon tracing for interactive global illumination of dynamic scenes

  • Authors:
  • Chunhui Yao;Bin Wang;Bin Chan;Junhai Yong;Jean-Claude Paul

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Software, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China and Dept. of Comp. Science and Techn., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China and Key Laboratory for Inf. System Security, Ministry of Education of China ...;School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Key Laboratory for Information System Security, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, China and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Info ...;The University of Hong Kong, Hongkong, China;School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Key Laboratory for Information System Security, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing, China and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Info ...;INRIA, France and School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • EGSR'10 Proceedings of the 21st Eurographics conference on Rendering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Image space photon mapping has the advantage of simple implementation on GPU without pre-computation of complex acceleration structures. However, existing approaches use only a single image for tracing caustic photons, so they are limited to computing only a part of the global illumination effects for very simple scenes. In this paper we fully extend the image space approach by using multiple environment maps for photon mapping computation to achieve interactive global illumination of dynamic complex scenes. The two key problems due to the introduction of multiple images are 1) selecting the images to ensure adequate scene coverage; and 2) reliably computing raygeometry intersections with multiple images. We present effective solutions to these problems and show that, with multiple environment maps, the image-space photon mapping approach can achieve interactive global illumination of dynamic complex scenes. The advantages of the method are demonstrated by comparison with other existing interactive global illumination methods.