Fast Environmental Lighting for Local-PCA Encoded BTFs

  • Authors:
  • Gero Muller;Jan Meseth;Reinhard Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Bonn;University of Bonn;University of Bonn

  • Venue:
  • CGI '04 Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Rendering geometric models with complex surfacematerials in arbitrary lighting environments is a challengingproblem. In order to relight and render geometriescovered with complex, measured BTFs twoproblems have to be addressed: The memory problemresulting from the large size of the measured BTF dataand the light integration problem resulting from summingup the contributions from all measured light-sources.In this paper we describe how highly efficient BTFcompression methods like Local-PCA and suitablerepresentations of environmental light based onSpherical Harmonics can be combined leading to fastenvironmental lighting for efficiently encoded BTFs.As a side effect the method supports Precomputed RadianceTransfer.