Title
Stylized Caustics: Progressive Rendering of Animated Caustics.
Abstract
In recent years, much work was devoted to the design of light editing methods such as relighting and light path editing. So far, little work addressed the target-based manipulation and animation of caustics, for instance to a differently-shaped caustic, text or an image. The aim of this work is the animation of caustics by blending towards a given target irradiance distribution. This enables an artist to coherently change appearance and style of caustics, e.g., for marketing applications and visual effects. Generating a smooth animation is nontrivial, as photon density and caustic structure may change significantly. Our method is based on the efficient solution of a discrete assignment problem that incorporates constraints appropriate to make intermediate blends plausibly resemble caustics. The algorithm generates temporally coherent results that are rendered with stochastic progressive photon mapping. We demonstrate our system in a number of scenes and show blends as well as a key frame animation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1111/cgf.12827
Comput. Graph. Forum
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Caustic (optics),Ray tracing (graphics),Computer facial animation,Artificial intelligence,Animation,Key frame,Photon mapping,Rendering (computer graphics),Computer animation
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0167-7055
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
33
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tobias Günther112317.58
Kai Rohmer2162.43
Christian Rössl344933.65
Thorsten Grosch448724.79
Holger Theisel5147999.18