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A fast translucency appearance model for real-time applications

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Francesco Banterle,

Alan ChalmersAuthors Info & Claims

SCCG '06: Proceedings of the 22nd Spring Conference on Computer Graphics

Pages 59 - 66 PAGE@7

https://doi.org/10.1145/2602161.2602168

Published: 20 April 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Realistic rendering of natural materials such as marble, jade, human skin, etc. requires the simulation of subsurface scattering of light. Such high-fidelity rendering, however, takes a significant amount of computation time, precluding its use in real-time application. This paper introduces a new technique for rendering the appearance of translucent material in real-time based on spherical harmonics. The technique consists of two passes, first the irradiance of the object is projected on a spherical harmonic basis, then in the second pass the exitant radiance is evaluated. This technique is not physically based, but it ensures high frame rates. It also supports deformable objects and with no precomputation time, so it could be used in interactive applications including videogames.

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Yu-Ting Wu Tzu-Mao Li Yu-Hsun Lin Yung-Yu Chuang (2015)Dual-Matrix Sampling for Scalable Translucent Material RenderingIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2014.238505921:3(363-374)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2014.2385059
Menzel NGuthe M(2009)g‐BRDFs: An Intuitive and Editable BTF RepresentationComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01432.x28:8(2189-2200)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2009
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01432.x

Index Terms

A fast translucency appearance model for real-time applications
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing

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SCCG '06: Proceedings of the 22nd Spring Conference on Computer Graphics

April 2006

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ISBN:9781450328296

DOI:10.1145/2602161

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Yu-Ting Wu Tzu-Mao Li Yu-Hsun Lin Yung-Yu Chuang (2015)Dual-Matrix Sampling for Scalable Translucent Material RenderingIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2014.238505921:3(363-374)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2014.2385059
Menzel NGuthe M(2009)g‐BRDFs: An Intuitive and Editable BTF RepresentationComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01432.x28:8(2189-2200)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2009
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01432.x

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