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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Pixar, Emeryville, CA (US);
Inventor:
Carl Magnus Wrenninge, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
PIXAR, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/60 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods can be used to render an animated scene using a temporal voxel buffer. A voxel buffer including a plurality of voxel arrays is received. A voxel array includes at least one time value associated with a voxel and at least one parameter value associated with each time value. For each pixel of an image to rendered, a plurality of rays are cast through the voxel grid. A time value is associated with each ray. A parameter value is sampled at each voxel along a ray at the time associated with the ray. A pixel value is determined based on the sampled parameter values for the plurality of rays.