Per H. Christensen, Dana Batali
Abstract:
We introduce a tiled 3D MIP map representation of global illumination data.
The representation is an adaptive sparse octree with a "brick" at each octree node;
each brick consists of 8 cubed voxels with sparse irradiance values. The
representation is designed to enable efficient caching. Combined with photon tracing
and recent advances in distribution ray tracing of very complex scenes, the result
is a method for efficient and flexible computation of global illumination in very
complex scenes. The method can handle scenes with many more textures, geometry,
and photons than could fit in memory. We show an example of a CG movie scene that
has been retrofitted with global illumination shading using our method.
Paper (PDF)
Published as pp. 133-141 in the Proceedings of the Eurographics Symposium
on Rendering 2004, Eurographics/ACM, June 2004.