Adaptive Frameless Rendering

Dayal, Abhinav; Woolley, Cliff; Watson, Benjamin; Luebke, David

Adaptive Frameless Rendering

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Date

2005

Authors

Dayal, Abhinav
Woolley, Cliff
Watson, Benjamin
Luebke, David

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We propose an adaptive form of frameless rendering with the potential to dramatically increase rendering speed over conventional interactive rendering approaches. Without the rigid sampling patterns of framed renderers, sampling and reconstruction can adapt with very fine granularity to spatio-temporal color change. A sampler uses closed-loop feedback to guide sampling toward edges or motion in the image. Temporally deep buffers store all the samples created over a short time interval for use in reconstruction and as sampler feedback. GPU-based reconstruction responds both to sampling density and space-time color gradients. Where the displayed scene is static, spatial color change dominates and older samples are given significant weight in reconstruction, resulting in sharper and eventually antialiased images. Where the scene is dynamic, more recent samples are emphasized, resulting in less sharp but more up-to-date images. We also use sample reprojection to improve reconstruction and guide sampling toward occlusion edges, undersampled regions, and specular highlights. In simulation our frameless renderer requires an order of magnitude fewer samples than traditional rendering of similar visual quality (as measured by RMS error), while introducing overhead amounting to 15% of computation time.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/265-275
,
booktitle = {Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (2005)
},
editor = {Kavita Bala and Philip Dutre
},
title = {{Adaptive Frameless Rendering
}},
author = {Dayal, Abhinav and 
Woolley, Cliff and 
Watson, Benjamin and 
Luebke, David
},
year = {2005
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-3463
},
ISBN = {3-905673-23-1
},
DOI = {/10.2312/EGWR/EGSR05/265-275
}
}