Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, National Astronomical Observatories, Cas

Changpeng Ding

Bin Liang

Yi Zheng

Ying Li

Kai Wei

The invention discloses a method for rendering on the basis of hemispherical orthogonal function, the method comprising the following steps: selecting rendering fragments and establishing a local coordinate system; acquiring a bidirectional reflectance distribution function of a material; if global illumination is an orthogonal function, determining a rotation matrix of an orthogonal function coefficient according to the rotation angles of the global coordinate system and the local coordinate system, and calculating a local orthogonal function illumination coefficient; converting the local orthogonal function illumination coefficient into a hemispherical orthogonal function illumination coefficient; sampling to obtain the spatial distribution of a bidirectional reflection distribution function of a rendered material; obtaining a hemispherical orthogonal function of the bidirectional reflection distribution function of the rendered material; and using the dot product of a hemispherical orthogonal function coefficient of illumination and a hemispherical orthogonal function coefficient of the bidirectional reflection distribution function of the rendered material and accumulating to obtain the light intensity in the reflection direction. A hemispherical harmonic function(HSH) is used to fit measurement data or theoretically derived data of a BRDF, which may avoid the difficulty of fitting that accurs for a hemispherical harmonics function due to data being missing in the lower hemisphere.

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