Interactive Cloth Rendering of Microcylinder Appearance Model under Environment Lighting
Kei Iwasaki
Kazutaka Mizutani
Yoshinori Dobashi
Tomoyuki Nishita
Wakayama University
Wakayama University
Hokkaido University
Hiroshima Shudo University
Abstract:
This paper proposes an interactive rendering method of cloth fabrics under environment lighting. The outgoing
radiance from cloth fabrics in the microcylinder model is calculated by integrating the product of the distant
environment lighting, the visibility function, the weighting function that includes shadowing/masking effects of
threads, and the light scattering function of threads. The radiance calculation at each shading point of the cloth
fabrics is simplified to a linear combination of triple product integrals of two circular Gaussians and the visibility
function, multiplied by precomputed spherical Gaussian convolutions of the weighting function. We propose an
efficient calculation method of the triple product of two circular Gaussians and the visibility function by using the
gradient of signed distance function to the visibility boundary where the binary visibility changes in the angular
domain of the hemisphere. Our GPU implementation enables interactive rendering of static cloth fabrics with
dynamic viewpoints and lighting. In addition, interactive editing of parameters for the scattering function (e.g.
thread’s albedo) that controls the visual appearances of cloth fabrics can be achieved.
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