Runtime Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer.

Loos, Brad; Antani, Lakulish; Mitchell, Kenny; Nowrouzezahrai, Derek; Jarosz, Wojciech; Sloan, Peter-Pike

Abstract

Real-time rendering of indirect lighting significantly enhances the sense of realism in video games. Unfortunately, previously including such effects often required time consuming scene dependent precomputation and heavy runtime computations unsuitable for low-end devices, such as mobile phones or game consoles. Modular Radiance Transfer (MRT) [Loos et al. 2011] is a recent technique that computes approximate direct-to-indirect transfer [Hašan et al. 2006; Kontkanen et al. 2006; Lehtinen et al. 2008] by warping and combining light transport, in real-time, from a small library of simple shapes. This talk focusses on implementation issues of the MRT technical paper, including how our run time is designed to scale across many different platforms, from iPhones to modern GPUs.

Citation

Loos, B., Antani, L., Mitchell, K., Nowrouzezahrai, D., Jarosz, W., & Sloan, P. (2011). Runtime Implementation of Modular Radiance Transfer. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Talks (59:1-59:1). https://doi.org/10.1145/2037826.2037905

• Conference Name: SIGGRAPH 2011
• Start Date: Nov 7, 2011
• End Date: Nov 11, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Aug 1, 2016
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 59:1-59:1
• Series Title: SIGGRAPH '11
• Book Title: ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Talks
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-0974-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2037826.2037905
• Keywords: Indirect lighting, realism, video games,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/321849
• Publisher URL: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2037826.2037905