Data-parallel hierarchical link creation for radiosity

  • Authors:
  • Quirin Meyer;Christian Eisenacher;Marc Stamminger;Carsten Dachsbacher

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg;University of Erlangen-Nuremberg;University of Erlangen-Nuremberg;University of Stuttgart

  • Venue:
  • EG PGV'09 Proceedings of the 9th Eurographics conference on Parallel Graphics and Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The efficient simulation of mutual light exchange for radiosity-like methods has been demonstrated on GPUs. However, those approaches require a suitable set of links and hierarchical data structures, prepared in an expensive preprocessing step. We present a fast, data-parallel method to create links and a compact tree of patches. We demonstrate our approach for Antiradiance and Implicit Visibility. Our algorithm is able to create up to 50 M links per second on an Nvidia GTX 260, allowing fully dynamic scenes at interactive frame rates.