Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Light Fields

Steven J. Gortler, Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen. (1996). The lumigraph. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, 43-54.

 Levoy, M. and Hanrahan, P. (1996). Light field rendering. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, 31-42.
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  1. Stuart HeinrichMarch 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM

    Hmm, I guess light fields are not a method of rendering global illumination after all. I found the document I was mentioning that describes the technique:

    http://ati.amd.com/products/pdf/DirectX10.1WhitePaperv1.0FINAL.pdf

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  2. UnknownMarch 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM

    Lumigraph:
    In the Resolution section I understand their reasoning on choosing N. However, for M, they pull the classic "this is intuitively obvious" and it isn't to me at first blush. I understand their figures but I'm not convinced it is always smooth.

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