Fall 2001 Research Work |
Goal: Caustics and other global illumination effects at an interactive rate. |
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Fall 2001 Research Work |
Goal: Caustics and other global illumination effects at an interactive rate. |
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Currently, I'm working on using an Irradiance Volume type method to generate caustics in real time. Currently the caustics look quite good (as you can see from the image in the upper right corner), however frame-to-frame coherence is lacking, ocassionally causing annoying jumps.
Update October 2: Below are examples of the images before and after the jump. (Notice the sphere doesn't visibly move between the two sets -- opening the two images in XV and switching back and forth shows just the caustic moving).
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| Caustic Displayed (Interpolated in 3D from images below): |  |  |
| Caustic Grid Above (Interpolated in 2D): |  |  |
| Caustic Grid Below (Interpolated in 2D): |  |  |
| Caustic Grid Above: |  |  |
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Last Modified: October 3, 2001
Chris Wyman (wyman@cs.utah.edu)