A lens and aperture camera model for synthetic image generation
SIGGRAPH '81 Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Depth-of-field rendering with multiview synthesis
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 papers
Real-time lens blur effects and focus control
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 papers
Realistic rendering of bokeh effect based on optical aberrations
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
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The effect of aperture shape on an image, known in photography as ‘bokeh’, is an important characteristic of depth of field in real-world cameras. However, most real-time depth of field techniques produce Gaussian bokeh rather than the circular or polygonal bokeh that is almost universal in real-world cameras. ‘Scattering’ (i.e. point-splatting) techniques provide a flexible way to model any aperture shape, but tend to have prohibitively slow performance, and require geometry-shaders or significant engine changes to implement. This paper shows that simple post-process ‘gathering’ depth of field shaders can be easily extended to simulate certain bokeh effects. Specifically we show that it is possible to efficiently model the bokeh effects of square, hexagonal and octagonal apertures using a novel separable filtering approach. Performance data from a video game engine test demonstrates that our shaders attain much better frame rates than a naive non-separable approach. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.