Blue Noise

Blue Noise

pbrt-v4\src\pbrt\util\bluenoise.h
https://github.com/gao-duan/BlueNoise

Blue Noise
by Duan Gao
Implement the algorithm introduced in [1].
The blue noise image can be used in Path Tracing to distribute the Monte Carlo noise from white noise to blue noise (I have tested this idea in my own physically based renderer Elegans) , more details are described in [2].

[1] Georgiev I, Fajardo M. Blue-noise dithered sampling[C]//ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Talks. ACM, 2016: 35.

https://www.arnoldrenderer.com/research/dither_abstract.pdf

[2] Heitz E, Belcour L. Distributing Monte Carlo Errors as a Blue Noise in Screen Space by Permuting Pixel Seeds Between Frames[C]//Computer Graphics Forum. 2019, 38(4): 149-158.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02158423/document

[3] Use ./results/vis_image_freq.py to generate the frequency visualization image. Please see OpenCV for more details.

[4] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02158423/file/blueNoiseTemporal2019_slides.pdf