Simon Lucas, Mickaël Ribardière, Romain Pacanowski, Pascal Barla
We introduce a new BSDF model for the rendering of porous layers, as found on surfaces covered by dust, rust, dirt, or sprayed paint. Our approach is based on a distribution of elliptical opaque micrograins, extending the Trowbridge-Reitz (GGX) distribution [Trowbridge and Reitz 1975; Walter et al . 2007] to handle pores (i.e., spaces between micrograins). We use distance field statistics to derive the corresponding Normal Distribution Function (NDF) and Geometric Attenuation Factor (GAF), as well as a view- and light-dependent filling factor to blend between the porous and base layers. All the derived terms show excellent agreement when compared against numerical simulations.
Our approach has several advantages compared to previous work [d’Eon et al. 2023; Merillou et al . 2000; Wang et al. 2022]. First, it decouples structural and reflectance parameters, leading to an analytical single-scattering formula regardless of the choice of micrograin reflectance. Second, we show that the classical texture maps (albedo, roughness, etc) used for spatially-varying material parameters are easily retargeted to work with our model. Finally, the BRDF parameters of our model behave linearly, granting direct multi-scale rendering using classical mip mapping..
Simon Lucas, Romain Pacanowski, Pascal Barla
L’apparence des objets est impactée par leur structure microscopique. Ici nous nous intéressons à l’apparence de matériaux poreux. La présence de pores a été modélisée de deux manières dans les travaux existants: en modifiant l’état de surface d’un matériau, ou en modifiant ses propriétés volumiques. Il n’existe cependant pas de modèle de matériaux poreux suffisamment générique pour tenir compte à la fois des effets surfaciques et volumiques. Nous proposons dans cet article une étude de ces effets à l’aide de simulations du transport de la lumière. Cette approche permet de révéler les limitations des modèles existants, ainsi que des pistes prometteuses pour le développement futur d’un modèle de matériau suffisamment général pour tenir compte de variations de porosités et d’état de surface.
Xavier Chermain, Simon Lucas, Basile Sauvage, Jean-Michel Dischler and Carsten Dachsbacher
Real-time geometric specular anti-aliasing is required when using a low number of pixel samples and high frequency specular lobes. Several methods have been proposed for mono-lobe bidirectional reflection distribution functions (BRDFs), but none for multi-lobe BRDFs, e.g., a glinty BRDF. We present the first method for real-time geometric glint anti-aliasing (GGAA). It eliminates most of the inconsistent appearing and disappearing of glints on surfaces with significant curvatures during animations. The technique uses the glinty BRDF of Chermain et al. [2020] and leverages hardware GPU-filtering of textures to filter slope distributions on the fly. We also improve this glinty BRDF by adding a correlation factor of slope. This BRDF parameter allows convergence to normal distribution functions that are not aligned on the surface’s axes. Above all, this parameter makes glint rendering compatible with normal map filtering using LEAN mapping. Using GGAA increases the rendering time from 0.6 % to 4.2 % and it requires 1/3 more memory due to MIP mapping of tabulated slope distributions. The results are compared with references using a thousand samples per pixel.
