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- September, 2018: Preprint, supplemental, and slides available.
- May, 2018: Paper accepted at SIGGRAPH 2018. More info soon.
Abstract
We introduce a non-exponential radiative framework that takes into account the local spatial correlation of scattering particles in a medium. Most previous works in graphics have ignored this, assuming uncorrelated media with a uniform, random local distribution of particles. However, positive and negative correlation lead to slower- and faster-than-exponential attenuation respectively, which cannot be predicted by the Beer-Lambert law. As our results show, this has a major effect on extinction, and thus appearance. From recent advances in neutron transport, we first introduce our Extended Generalized Boltzmann Equation, and develop a general framework for light transport in correlated media. We lift the limitations of the original formulation, including an analysis of the boundary conditions, and present a model suitable for computer graphics, based on optical properties of the media and statistical distributions of scatterers. In addition, we present an analytic expression for transmittance in the case of positive correlation, and show how to incorporate it efficiently into a Monte Carlo renderer. We show results with a wide range of both positive and negative correlation, and demonstrate the differences compared to classic light transport.
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Acknowledgements
We thank Miguel Angel Otaduy, Carlos Castillo and Jorge Lopez Moreno for comments and discussions on early stages of the project and the dataset in Figure 11; Julio Marco, Adolfo Muñoz, and Ibón Guillén for discussions throughout the project; Pilar Romeo for help with the figures; all the members of the Graphics & Imaging Lab that helped with proof-reading; and the reviewers for the in-depth reviews. The Iceberg was modeled by Tora2097 from TurboSquid, while the Dragon and Lucy are from the Stanford 3D Scanning Repository. This project has been funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (project CHAMELEON, grant No 682080), DARPA (project REVEAL), and the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (projects TIN2016-78753-P and TIN2014-61696-EXP).