Sparse zonal harmonic factorization for efficient SH rotation
Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Patricio Simari, Eugene Fiume
In ACM Transactions on Graphics, 31(3), May 2012.
Abstract: We present a sparse analytic representation for spherical functions, including those expressed in a Spherical Harmonic (SH) expansion, that is amenable to fast and accurate rotation on the GPU. Exploiting the fact that each band-l SH basis function can be expressed as a weighted sum of 2l + 1 rotated band-l Zonal Harmonic (ZH) lobes, we develop a factorization that significantly reduces this number. We investigate approaches for promoting sparsity in the change-of-basis matrix, and also introduce lobe sharing to reduce the total number of unique lobe directions used for an order-N expansion from N^2 to 2N-1. Our representation does not introduce approximation error, is suitable for any type of spherical function (e.g., lighting or transfer), and requires no offline fitting procedure; only a (sparse) matrix multiplication is required to map to/from SH. We provide code for our rotation algorithms, and apply them to several real-time rendering applications.
Keyword(s): Spherical harmonic rotation, rendering
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2167076.2167081
BibTeX format:
@article{Nowrouzezahrai:2012:SZH,
  author = {Derek Nowrouzezahrai and Patricio Simari and Eugene Fiume},
  title = {Sparse zonal harmonic factorization for efficient SH rotation},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
  volume = {31},
  number = {3},
  pages = {23:1--23:9},
  month = may,
  year = {2012},
}
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