“An efficient and practical near and far field fur reflectance model” by Yan and Jensen

  • ©Ling-Qi Yan, Henrik Wann Jensen, and Ravi Ramamoorthi

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    An efficient and practical near and far field fur reflectance model

Session/Category Title: Reflectance & Scattering


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    Physically-based fur rendering is difficult. Recently, structural differences between hair and fur fibers have been revealed by Yan et al. (2015), who showed that fur fibers have an inner scattering medulla, and developed a double cylinder model. However, fur rendering is still complicated due to the complex scattering paths through the medulla. We develop a number of optimizations that improve efficiency and generality without compromising accuracy, leading to a practical fur reflectance model. We also propose a key contribution to support both near and far-field rendering, and allow smooth transitions between them.Specifically, we derive a compact BCSDF model for fur reflectance with only 5 lobes. Our model unifies hair and fur rendering, making it easy to implement within standard hair rendering software, since we keep the traditional R, TT, and TRT lobes in hair, and only add two extensions to scattered lobes, TTs and TRTs. Moreover, we introduce a compression scheme using tensor decomposition to dramatically reduce the precomputed data storage for scattered lobes to only 150 KB, with minimal loss of accuracy. By exploiting piecewise analytic integration, our method further enables a multi-scale rendering scheme that transitions between near and far field rendering smoothly and efficiently for the first time, leading to 6 — 8× speed up over previous work.

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