Realtime Rendering Glossy to Glossy Reflections in Screen Space
Chao Xu, Rui Wang, Hujun Bao
In Computer Graphics Forum, 34(7), 2015.
Abstract: Glossy to glossy reflections are lights bounced between glossy surfaces. Such directional light transports are important for humans to perceive glossy materials, but difficult to simulate. This paper proposes a new method for rendering screen-space glossy to glossy reflections in realtime. We use spherical von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distributions to model glossy BRDFs at surfaces, and employ screen space directional occlusion (SSDO) rendering framework to trace indirect light transports bounced in the screen space. As our main contributions, we derive a new parameterization of vMF distribution so as to convert the non-linear fit of multiple vMF distributions into a linear sum in the new space. Then, we present a new linear filtering technique to build MIP-maps on glossy BRDFs, which allows us to create filtered radiance transfer functions at runtime, and efficiently estimate indirect glossy to glossy reflections. We demonstrate our method in a realtime application for rendering scenes with dynamic glossy objects. Compared with screen space directional occlusion, our approach only requires one extra texture and has a negligible overhead, 3% ∼ 6% loss at frame rate, but enables glossy to glossy reflections.
Keyword(s): Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS), I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism—Color, shading, shadowing, and texture
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12745
BibTeX format:
@article{CGF:CGF12745,
  author = {Chao Xu and Rui Wang and Hujun Bao},
  title = {Realtime Rendering Glossy to Glossy Reflections in Screen Space},
  journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  volume = {34},
  number = {7},
  pages = {57--66},
  year = {2015},
}
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