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SUMMARY:Unbiased Caustics Rendering Guided by Representative Specular Path
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DESCRIPTION:Technical Communications, Technical Papers\n\nUnbiased Caustic
s Rendering Guided by Representative Specular Paths\n\nLi, Wang, Tu, Xu, H
olzschuch...\n\nCaustics are interesting patterns caused by the light bein
g focused when reflecting off glossy materials. Rendering them in Computer
Graphics is still challenging: they correspond to high luminous intensity
focused over a small area. Finding the paths that contribute to this smal
l area is difficult, and even more difficult when using camera-based path
tracing instead of bidirectional approaches. Recent improvements in path g
uiding are still unable to compute efficiently the light paths that contri
bute to a caustic. In this paper, we present a novel path guiding approach
to enable reliable rendering of caustics. Our approach relies on computin
g representative specular paths, then extending them using a chain of sphe
rical Gaussians. We use these extended paths to estimate the incident radi
ance distribution and guide path tracing. We combine this approach with se
veral practical strategies, such as spatial reusing and parallax-aware rep
resentation for arbitrarily curved reflectors. Our path-guided algorithm u
sing extended specular paths outperforms current state-of-the-art methods
and handles multiple bounces of light and a variety of scenes.\n\nRegistra
tion Category: FULL ACCESS, ON-DEMAND ACCESS\n\nLanguage: ENGLISH\n\nForma
t: IN-PERSON, ON-DEMAND
URL:https://sa2022.siggraph.org/en/full-program/?id=papers_208&sess=sess17
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