Position-free Multiple-bounce Computations for Smith Microfacet BSDFs

Beibei Wang

doi:10.1145/3528223.3530112

Position-free Multiple-bounce Computations for Smith Microfacet BSDFs

2022-07-22

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DOI：10.1145/3528223.3530112

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Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions (BSDFs) encode how a material reflects or transmits the incoming light. The most commonly used model is the microfacet BSDF. It computes the material response from the microgeometry of the surface assuming a single bounce on specular microfacets. The original model ignores multiple bounces on the microgeometry, resulting in an energy loss, especially for rough materials. In this paper, we present a new method to compute the multiple bounces inside the microgeometry, eliminating this energy loss. Our method relies on a position-free formulation of multiple bounces inside the microgeometry. We use an explicit mathematical definition of the path space that describes single and multiple bounces in a uniform way. We then study the behavior of light on the different vertices and segments in the path space, leading to a reciprocal multiple-bounce description of BSDFs. Furthermore, we present practical, unbiased Monte Carlo estimators to compute multiple scattering. Our method is less noisy than existing algorithms for computing multiple scattering. It is almost noise-free with a very-low sampling rate, from 2 to 4 samples per pixel (spp).

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microfacet

position-free

multiple-bounce

full-spherical

Position-free Multiple-bounce Computations for Smith Microfacet BSDFs

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