Title
An Improved Cloud Rendering Method
Abstract
Clouds play an important role for creating realistic images of outdoor scenes. Many methods have been proposed for modeling and rendering clouds. Among these methods, Dobashi et al. proposed a simple but efficient cloud rendering algorithm based on splatting algorithm and take into account single scattering in couds. This algorithm has been used in many papers to generate realistic clouds images. However, in images generated by using Dobashi's method, lattice like artifact can be easily perceived. This paper describes a method to improve the quality of cloud image generated by dobashi method. We perturb the positions of cloud particles and resample the density at perturbed position within neighboring meatballs to remove the regular pattern from regular space lattice structure and adding noise to texture of billboard used in the original method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICIG.2009.164
ICIG
Keywords
Field
DocType
regular space lattice structure,efficient cloud rendering algorithm,realistic clouds image,cloud image,realistic image,cloud particle,cloud rendering algorithm,rendering (computer graphics),outdoor scenes realistic image,clouds,splatting algorithm,regular pattern,dobashi method,improved cloud rendering method,original method,computational modeling,animation,meteorology,lattices,mathematical model,noise
Computer vision,Lattice (order),Computer graphics (images),Rendering algorithms,Computer science,Animation,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),Regular space,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-5237-8
1
0.38
References 
Authors
19
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoyan Hu110.72
Bo Sun210421.35
Xiaohui Liang32022108.43
Jun He47111.24
Yongkang Xiao5608.71
Rong Xiao621.75
Wei Ren710.38