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Adaptive Spectral Mapping for Real-Time Dispersive Refraction

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2012)

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Spectral rendering, or image synthesis utilizing the constituent wavelengths of white light, enables the rendering of iridescent colors caused by phenomena such as dispersion, diffraction, interference and scattering. Dispersion creates the rainbow of colors when white light shines through a prism. Caustics, the focusing and de-focusing of light through a refractive medium, can be interpreted as a special case of dispersion where all the wavelengths travel along the same paths. In this paper we extend Adaptive Caustic Mapping (ACM), a previously proposed caustics mapping algorithm, to handle physically-based dispersion. Our proposed method runs in screen-space, and is fast enough to display plausible dispersion phenomena at real-time frame rates.

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  1. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

    Damon Blanchette & Emmanuel Agu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Nevada, 89557, Reno, NV, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, 89512, Reno, NV, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, 92697-3435, Irvine, CA

    Charless Fowlkes

  6. Eastman Kodak Company, 14650-2102, Rochester, NY, USA

    Sen Wang

  7. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, 80217, Denver, CO, USA

    Min-Hyung Choi

  8. VRVis Zentrum für Virtual Reality and Visualisierung, 1220, Vienna, Austria

    Stephan Mantler

  9. California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California, 92093, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Jürgen Schulze

  10. KAUST Visualizatioin Core Lab., 23955-6900, Thurwal, Saudi Arabia

    Daniel Acevedo

  11. Stony Brook University, 11794-4400, NY, USA

    Klaus Mueller

  12. Argonne National Laboratory, 60439, IL, USA

    Michael Papka

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Blanchette, D., Agu, E. (2012). Adaptive Spectral Mapping for Real-Time Dispersive Refraction. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7431. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33179-4_9

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