CSC4140 ransient Rendering

CSC4140 Final Projects
April 27, 2024
The nal is 40% of the total mark.
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1 Transient Rendering through Scattering Medium
Problem Description
Participating media are used to simulate materials ranging from fog, smoke, and clouds, over
translucent materials such as skin or milk, to fuzzy structured substances such as woven or knitted
cloth. Participating media are usually attached to shapes in the scene. When a shape marks the
transition to a participating medium, it is necessary to provide information about the two media
that lie at the interior and exterior of the shape. This informs the renderer about what happens
in the region of space surrounding the surface. In many practical use cases, it is sucient only
to specify an interior medium and to assume the exterior medium (e.g., air), not to inuence the
light transport.
Transient rendering is proposed to simulate how the light propagates in the space. Instead of
the traditional renderer, it assumes the light speed is limited. Transient rendering for participating
media helps to provide a new simulation tool to achieve a new sensing technology in extreme
weather condition.
Goals and Deliverbles
Based on the code of Dierentiable Transient Rendering linked below, realize a renderer in the
FOG medium. You can refer to any renderer or code for participating media. For this project,
deliver a series of transient images generated with the Dierentiable Transient Renderer.
When working on this project, you will have to gure out how to embed the participating media
into the given engine.
Resources
1. Dierentiable Transient Rendering
2. Code
3. Mitsuba
2 Realize BDPT (use cuda)
Problem Description
Based on the code of assignment 5 and 6, realize your own Bi-Directional Path Tracer.
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Goals and Deliverbles
Render the given scenes in assignments 5 and 6 using your own BDPT and compare the difference with the current 写CSC4140  ransient Rendering one in your report. We encourage you to use CUDA to implement them
to avoid the hours-long rendering process. CUDA has become very easy, and it's just a library for
parallel computing and rendering.
Find a caustic scene like a lens or glass ball, render it with BDPT and the path tracer, compare
the results, and explain.
Resources
M. Clark, "CUDA Pro Tip: Kepler Texture Objects Improve Performance and Flexibility",
NVidia Accelerated Computinig, 2013. [Online]
T. Karras, "Thinking Parallel, Part III: Tree Construction on the GPU", NVidia Accelerated
Computing, 2012. [Online]
T. Karras, "Thinking Parallel, Part II: Tree Traversal on the GPU", NVidia Accelerated Computing, 2012. [Online]
E. Veach, "Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation", Ph.D, Stanford
University, 1997.
3 Realize Spectral Ray Tracing and Learn to Use "Nvidia
OptiX"
Problem Description
The current implementation of the raytracer cannot model dispersion and chromatic aberrations
because its light model is not wavelength-dependent. Currently, indices of refraction are constant
rather than dierent for each wavelength. You can implement your code based on assignment 6.
Nvidia OptiX is a high-level GPU-accelerated ray-casting API. If your computer supports
Nvidia RTX, We strongly recommend you try it and coding based on this API instead of the code
of assignment 6.
Goals and Deliverbles
Implement spectral ray tracing by tracing rays of dierent wavelengths sampled using the human
eye's wavelength prole for each color (RGB). By modeling dierent indices of refraction based on
those wavelengths for glass-like materials, we hope you to reproduce eects such as the dispersion
of light through a prism, the changing colors based on the viewing angle for a lens on a reective
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surface with a thin lm (such as a DVD), as well as model chromatic aberrations present in real
camera systems with lenses. Additionally, it would be best if you created wavelength-dependent
bsdfs and lighting. We hope to model dierent temperature lights.
1. Prism scene rendering
2. Disk/bubbles scene rendering (Add dierent environment maps (potential source from Light
Probe Library). Images from the light probe library are in HDR format, suitable for spectral
ray-tracing since you have the more realistic spectrum distribution of each scene pixel).
3. Correctly simulates chromatic aberration of dierent lenses.
4. Compare rendered images with real photos we take of the objects (e.g., disk).
5. Compare rendering under dierent temperature lights.
6. Finally, we hope you deliver a synthesized image that harmoniously combines objects that
best illustrate the eectiveness of our spectral ray tracer. (e.g., gemstones, etc., suggestions
on this would be helpful!)
7. Optional: Add fog/volumetric scattering so that rainbows can be seen.
Tasks:
1. Change lenstester to also include wavelength argument that the user can set. (mainly for
debugging purposes)
2. Refactor code so that rays have a wavelength argument that can be passed in and checked
as well as that functions that return Spectrums now return a single intensity value
3. Change raytrace_pixel to ask for multiple ray samples for each color channel, then combine
those color channels
4. Change camera.generate ray to take in a color channel argument and sample that color
channel's wavelength distribution (Gaussian) to change the ray's wavelength
5. Change lens_camera's tracing through the lens to use the wavelength argument to change
indices of refraction when tracing through the lens
6. Change sample_L of lights to have a wavelength-dependent intensity to simulate dierent
colors of lights (maybe initialize lights with a temperature argument and model them as ideal
black bodies to get the intensities for each color)
7. Rewrite BSDFs of colored objects to return a wavelength-dependent magnitude instead of a
constant spectrum argument.
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8. Rewrite/write glass BSDF to have wavelength-dependent indices of refraction (similar code
as lens_camera's tracing)
9. Write a bubble/ thin-lm interference BSDF that uses wavelength, thickness, and light to
determine if the interference occurs (integer multiples of wavelength)
10. Write new scene/dae les (using Blender )/mess with the parser to create a triangular prism
would want a small area of light create a disk + reective surface + transparent coating
Resources
1. AN INTRODUCTION TO NVIDIA OPTIX
2. Prisms and Rainbows: a Dispersion Model for Computer Graphics
3. Iridescent Surface Rendering with Per-channel Rotation of Anisotropic Microfacet Distribution
4. Rendering Iridescent Colors of Optical Disks
5. Derive spectrum from RGB triple
6. soap bubbles 1
7. soap bubbles 2
Other useful links: [1] refractive index [2] refractive indices [3] glassner [4] hyperphysics [5]
Morris, Nigel. "Capturing the Reectance Model of Soap Bubbles." University of Toronto
(2003).
4 Smooth Mesh Estimation from Depth Data using NonSmooth Convex Optimization
Problem Description
Meshes are commonly used as 3D maps since they encode the topology of the scene while being
lightweight. Unfortunately, 3D meshes are mathematically dicult to handle directly because of
their combinatorial and discrete nature. Therefore, most approaches generate 3D meshes of a scene
after fusing depth data using volumetric or other representations. Nevertheless, volumetric fusion
remains computationally expensive both in terms of speed and memory. The main references for
this project are this paper on the Smooth Mesh Estimation from Depth , and you can use the
attached test data.
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Goals and Deliverbles
Your task is to implement the given paper. To simplify the task, you are allowed to use any
package available to help you dealing with the optimization part. Or you can grab a certain piece
of code block to help you complete this task.
Final Note
You have achieved a milestone in Computer Graphics. Here your task left is to make some
fancy results and reports! Computer Graphics is not only a science of producing graphical images
with the aid of a computer but also a fancy art! Again, always be creative!
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