Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Eth Zurich (eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)

Wojciech Krzysztof Jarosz

Oliver Wang

Alexander Sorkine Hornung

Henning Zimmer

Fabrice Pierre Armand Rousselle

David M Adler

Olga Sorkine Hornung

Wenzel Jakob

Jan Novak

Marios Papas

Jan Novák

Wenzel A Jakob

Benedikt Martin Bitterli

Particular embodiments perform a light path analysis of an image comprising a scene, wherein the scene comprises at least one refractive or reflective object. The image may be decomposed based on the light path analysis into a plurality of components, each of the components representing a contribution to lighting in the scene by a different type of light interaction. For each of the components, one or more motion vectors are extracted for each of the components in order to capture motion in the scene. Finally, a final contribution of each of the components to the image is computed based on the motion vectors.

Image decomposition and path-space motion estimation

Particular embodiments decompose an image comprising a scene into a diffuse component and a specular component. Each of the components represent a contribution to lighting in the scene. A set of motion vectors may be extracted in order to capture motion in the scene. Finally, a final contribution of each of the components to the image may be computed based on the motion vectors.

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for rendering three-dimensional virtual environments using reversible jumps are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, mappings from random numbers to light paths are modeled as an explicit iterative random walk. Inverses of path construction techniques are employed to turn light transport paths back into the random numbers that produced them. In particular, such inverses may be used to extend the Multiplexed Metropolis Light Transport (MMLT) technique to perform path-invariant perturbations that produce a new path sample using a different path construction technique but preserve the path's geometry. To render an image, a rendering application in one embodiment may trace light paths through a virtual scene, with some path samples being generated by probabilistically selecting one or more techniques through technique perturbation and using inverses of the selected technique(s) to invert existing path(s), and with new paths being obtained by mutating or perturbing existing paths.

Informed choices in primary sample space for light transport simulation

The disclosure provides an approach for rendering heterogeneous polydisperse granular media. In one aspect, a rendering application renders such granular media using a combination of explicit path tracing and accelerated path construction using proxy path tracing, shell tracing, and volumetric path tracing. In proxy path tracing in particular, the rendering application instantiates proxy geometry in the form of a bounding sphere and determines internal scattering in the grain using a precomputed grain scattering distribution function that relates incident and outgoing radiance functions on the bounding sphere. In shell tracing, the rendering application uses shells to aggregate many grain interactions into a single step. The rendering application derives a continuous liquid/volume equivalent to the granular material based on the material's optical properties and selects a precomputed shell transport function (STF) to use from a database by interpolating nearby database entries using radiative transfer equation (RTE) parameters at the shell's center.

Efficient rendering of heterogeneous polydisperse granular media

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Wojciech Krzysztof Jarosz