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Spherical Harmonic Exponentials for Efficient Glossy Reflections

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Ari Silvennoinen *
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Peter‐Pike Sloan
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Michaƚ Iwanicki
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Derek Nowrouzezahrai
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Abstract

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We propose a high-performance and compact method for computing glossy specular reflections. Commonly-used prefiltered environment maps have large storage requirements and high error due to constrained treatment of view-dependence. We propose a factorized spherical harmonic exponential representation that exploits new observations of the benefits of log-space reconstruction for reflectance. Our method is compact, properly accounts for view-dependent reflections, and is more accurate than the state-of-the-industry solutions. We achieve higher quality results with an order of magnitude less memory, all with efficient and alias-free reconstruction of glossy reflections from environment lights and continuously-varying material roughness.
Keywords:
CCS Concepts
center dot Computing methodologies -> Rendering
Reflectance modeling

Journal

Computer Graphics Forum cover
Computer Graphics Forum
IF:
2.9
Papers:
568
Citations:
1.1W

Organization

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mila quebec artificial intelligence institute
Scholars:
28
Papers: 14
Citations: 0
M
McGill University
Scholars:
5.5W
Papers: 4.9W
Citations: 7.0W
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