An Interactive Information Visualization Approach to Physically-Based Rendering

Abstract
In this work, we present a novel information visualization tool to gain insight into the light transport in a physically-based rendering setting. The tool consists of a sampling-based data reduction technique, an extended interactive parallel coordinates plot providing an overview of the attributes linked to each light sample, 2D and 3D heat maps to represent different aspects of the rendering process, as well as a three-dimensional view to display and animate the light path transportation throughout the scene. We show several applications including differential light transport visualization for scene analysis, lighting and material optimization, reduction of rendering artifacts, and user-guided importance sampling.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:vmv.20161356
, booktitle = {
Vision, Modeling & Visualization
}, editor = {
Matthias Hullin and Marc Stamminger and Tino Weinkauf
}, title = {{
An Interactive Information Visualization Approach to Physically-Based Rendering
}}, author = {
Simons, Gerard
and
Ament, Marco
and
Herholz, Sebastian
and
Dachsbacher, Carsten
and
Eisemann, Martin
and
Eisemann, Elmar
}, year = {
2016
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
-
}, ISBN = {
978-3-03868-025-3
}, DOI = {
10.2312/vmv.20161356
} }
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