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AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsDerek NOWROUZEZAHRAI, Ilya BARAN, Kenny MITCHELL, Wojciech JAROSZ
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The disclosure provides an approach for determining, in 3D rendering, the integrals of visibility-masked spherical functions using visibility silhouettes. For a given shade point, the visibility silhouette for that shade point includes a set of edges from the scene geometry which form the boundaries between visible and invisible regions of a hemisphere having the shade point as its center. For each shade point, a rendering application determines a set of contour edges of scene geometry, the contour edges being a superset of the set of visibility silhouette edges, by querying a 4D dual mesh. The rendering application then evaluates the integral of the visibility-masked spherical function for a given shade point by integrating over segments of discrete u-isolines for which an overlap function indicates that a ray from the shade point would not intersect scene geometry.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by a computer system, perform operations comprising:
A system, comprising:
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