An Interactive Information Visualization Approach to Physically-Based Rendering

Gerard Simons, Marco Ament, Sebastian Herholz, Carsten Dachsbacher, Martin Eisemann, Elmar Eisemann

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Abstract

In this work, we present a novel information visualization tool to gain insight into the light transport in a physically-based rendering setting. The tool consists of a sampling-based data reduction technique, an extended interactive parallel coordinates plot providing an overview of the attributes linked to each light sample, 2D and 3D heat maps to represent different aspects of the rendering process, as well as a three-dimensional view to display and animate the light path transportation throughout the scene. We show several applications including differential light transport visualization for scene analysis, lighting and material optimization, reduction of rendering artifacts, and user-guided importance sampling.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVMV '16 Proceedings of the Conference on Vision, Modeling and Visualization
EditorsM. Hullin, M. Stamminger, T. Weinkauf
Place of PublicationAire-la-Ville
PublisherEurographics Asociation
Pages169-177
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)978-3-03868-025-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventVMV 2016 Conference on Vision, Modeling and Visualization - Bayreuth, Germany
Duration: 10 Oct 201631 Oct 2016

Conference

ConferenceVMV 2016 Conference on Vision, Modeling and Visualization
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBayreuth
Period10/10/1631/10/16

Keywords

  • Computer Graphics
  • Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism- Raytracing

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