A survey on participating media rendering techniques

Cerezo, Eva; Pérez, Frederic; Pueyo, Xavier; Serón, Francisco J.; Sillion, François X.

doi:10.1007/s00371-005-0287-1

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“…Monte Carlo methods have been adapted to the needs of this field, sometimes including turbid media [14]. One of the differences between computer graphics and other research areas has been the focus on producing images [13] rather than accurately computing some relevant physical magnitudes.…”

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Shape based Monte Carlo code for light transport in complex heterogeneous Tissues

Margallo-Balbás

French

2007

Opt. Express

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A Monte Carlo code for the calculation of light transport in heterogeneous scattering media is presented together with its validation. Triangle meshes are used to define the interfaces between different materials, in contrast with techniques based on individual volume elements. This approach allows to address realistic problems in a flexible way. A hierarchical spatial organisation enables a fast photon-surface intersection test. The application of the new environment to evaluate the impact of the trabecular structure of bone on its optical properties is demonstrated. A model of the trabecular micro structure recovered from microCT data was used to compute light distribution within tissue. Time-resolved curves across a spherical bone volume were computed. The work presented enables simulation of radiative transport in complex reality-based models of tissue and serves as a powerful, generic tool to study the effect of heterogeneity in the field of biomedical optics. 547-560 (1998 193-206 (1998). 24. A. Pifferi, A. Torricelli, P. Taroni, A. Bassi, E. Chikoidze, E. Giambattistelli, and R. Cubeddu, "Optical biopsy of bone tissue: a step toward the diagnosis of bone pathologies," J. Biomed. Opt. 9(3), 474-479 (2004).

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Shape based Monte Carlo code for light transport in complex heterogeneous Tissues

Margallo-Balbás

French

2007

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“…For more details about global illumination techniques, the reader is invited to refer to (Cerezo et al, 2005). Scattering media rendering techniques are classically divided in three categories : analytic, stochastic and deterministic methods.…”

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Illuminating and Rendering Heterogeneous Participating Media in Real Time Using Opacity Propagation

Giroud

Biri

2011

Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

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Abstract:We present a new approach to illuminate and render single scattering effects in heterogeneous participating media in real time. The medium's density is modeled as a sum of radial basis functions, and is then sampled into a first volumetric grid. We then integrate the extinction function from each light source to each cell in the volume by a fast cell-to-cell propagation process on the GPU, and store the result in a second volume. We finally render both scattering medium and surfaces using a regular step ray-marching from the observer to the nearest surface. As we traverse the medium, we fetch data from both volumes and approximate a solution to the scattering equation. Our method is real-time, easy to implement and to integrate in a larger pipeline.

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“…Jensen [16] has presented the photon mapping method for rendering participating media. Cerezo et al [3] have provided a nice survey on rendering participating media. Finally, Geist et al [12] have revised the Lattice-Boltzmann method to render participating media.…”

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Lattice-Based Volumetric Global Illumination

Qiu

Fan

et al. 2007

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Abstract-We describe a novel volumetric global illumination framework based on the Face-Centered Cubic (FCC) lattice. An FCC lattice has important advantages over a Cartesian lattice. It has higher packing density in the frequency domain, which translates to better sampling efficiency. Furthermore, it has the maximal possible kissing number (equivalent to the number of nearest neighbors of each site), which provides optimal 3D angular discretization among all lattices. We employ a new two-pass (illumination and rendering) global illumination scheme on an FCC lattice. This scheme exploits the angular discretization to greatly simplify the computation in multiple scattering and to minimize illumination information storage. The GPU has been utilized to further accelerate the rendering stage. We demonstrate our new framework with participating media and volume rendering with multiple scattering, where both are significantly faster than traditional techniques with comparable quality.

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A survey on participating media rendering techniques

Cited by 144 publications

References 79 publications

Shape based Monte Carlo code for light transport in complex heterogeneous Tissues

Shape based Monte Carlo code for light transport in complex heterogeneous Tissues

Illuminating and Rendering Heterogeneous Participating Media in Real Time Using Opacity Propagation

Lattice-Based Volumetric Global Illumination

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