“Temporal and Spatial Anti-Aliasing for Rendering Reflection on a Water Surface” by Podee, Iwasaki, Max and Dobashi
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- Temporal and Spatial Anti-Aliasing for Rendering Reflection on a Water Surface
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The ocean surface is highly dynamic. It moves rapidly and thus its shading changes rapidly as well. Usually, this doesn’t pose any problems if the shading is smooth. However, for a surface that has a strong highlight or bright reflection moving rapidly, it causes an inaccurate and unnatural flickering. In the traditional rendering algorithms, each frame is rendered independently at a discrete time, resulting in serious temporal aliasing artifacts. Particularly, for a wavy water surface, reflection vectors may not hit the light source even though they actually hit for part of the frame time. Removing such aliasing in real-time is an active research area and many methods have been proposed [Jimenez et al. 2011]. They can improve the fidelity and efficiency of the rendering method. However, their focus is on spatial anti-aliasing and most of them do not address the temporal aliasing problem, particularly the one observed in rendering a reflected image of a light source on the
water surface.
In this paper, we present a method that can remove the spatial and temporal aliasing simultaneously. The basic idea is to compute the intersection of the light source with a plane formed by two reflection vectors for neighboring frames. This provides us with a fraction of time when the light source is visible on the water surface. We combine this idea with a traditional spatial anti-aliasing method.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15H05924.
