36-Issue 2

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    Analysis and Controlled Synthesis of Inhomogeneous Textures
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017) Zhou, Yang; Shi, Huajie; Lischinski, Dani; Gong, Minglun; Kopf, Johannes; Huang, Hui; Loic Barthe and Bedrich Benes
    Many interesting real-world textures are inhomogeneous and/or anisotropic. An inhomogeneous texture is one where various visual properties exhibit significant changes across the texture's spatial domain. Examples include perceptible changes in surface color, lighting, local texture pattern and/or its apparent scale, and weathering effects, which may vary abruptly, or in a continuous fashion. An anisotropic texture is one where the local patterns exhibit a preferred orientation, which also may vary across the spatial domain. While many example-based texture synthesis methods can be highly effective when synthesizing uniform (stationary) isotropic textures, synthesizing highly non-uniform textures, or ones with spatially varying orientation, is a considerably more challenging task, which so far has remained underexplored. In this paper, we propose a new method for automatic analysis and controlled synthesis of such textures. Given an input texture exemplar, our method generates a source guidance map comprising: (i) a scalar progression channel that attempts to capture the low frequency spatial changes in color, lighting, and local pattern combined, and (ii) a direction field that captures the local dominant orientation of the texture. Having augmented the texture exemplar with this guidance map, users can exercise better control over the synthesized result by providing easily specified target guidance maps, which are used to constrain the synthesis process.
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    General Point Sampling with Adaptive Density and Correlations
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017) Roveri, Riccardo; Ă–ztireli, A. Cengiz; Gross, Markus; Loic Barthe and Bedrich Benes
    Analyzing and generating sampling patterns are fundamental problems for many applications in computer graphics. Ideally, point patterns should conform to the problem at hand with spatially adaptive density and correlations. Although there exist excellent algorithms that can generate point distributions with spatially adaptive density or anisotropy, the pair-wise correlation model, blue noise being the most common, is assumed to be constant throughout the space. Analogously, by relying on possibly modulated pair-wise difference vectors, the analysis methods are designed to study only such spatially constant correlations. In this paper, we present the first techniques to analyze and synthesize point patterns with adaptive density and correlations. This provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and utilizing general point sampling. Starting from fundamental measures from stochastic point processes, we propose an analysis framework for general distributions, and a novel synthesis algorithm that can generate point distributions with spatio-temporally adaptive density and correlations based on a locally stationary point process model. Our techniques also extend to general metric spaces. We illustrate the utility of the new techniques on the analysis and synthesis of real-world distributions, image reconstruction, spatio-temporal stippling, and geometry sampling.
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    Practical Capture and Reproduction of Phosphorescent Appearance
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017) Nalbach, Oliver; Seidel, Hans-Peter; Ritschel, Tobias; Loic Barthe and Bedrich Benes
    This paper proposes a pipeline to accurately acquire, efficiently reproduce and intuitively manipulate phosphorescent appearance. In contrast to common appearance models, a model of phosphorescence needs to account for temporal change (decay) and previous illumination (saturation). For reproduction, we propose a rate equation that can be efficiently solved in combination with other illumination in a mixed integro-differential equation system. We describe an acquisition system to measure spectral coefficients of this rate equation for actual materials. Our model is evaluated by comparison to photographs of actual phosphorescent objects. Finally, we propose an artist-friendly interface to control the behavior of phosphorescent materials by specifying spatio-temporal appearance constraints.
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    Spatial Adjacency Maps for Translucency Simulation under General Illumination
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017) Maisch, Sebastian; Ropinski, Timo; Loic Barthe and Bedrich Benes
    Rendering translucent materials in real time is usually done by using surface diffusion and/or (translucent) shadow maps. The downsides of these approaches are, that surface diffusion cannot handle translucency effects that show up when rendering thin objects, and that translucent shadow maps are only available for point light sources. Furthermore, translucent shadow maps introduce limitations to shadow mapping techniques exploiting the same maps. In this paper we present a novel approach for rendering translucent materials at interactive frame rates. Our approach allows for an efficient calculation of translucency with native support for general illumination conditions, especially area and environment lighting, at high accuracy. The proposed technique's only parameter is the used diffusion profile, and thus it works out of the box without any parameter tuning. Furthermore, it can be used in combination with any existing surface diffusion techniques to add translucency effects. Our approach introduces Spatial Adjacency Maps that depend on precalculations to be done for fixed meshes. We show that these maps can be updated in real time to also handle deforming meshes and that our results are of superior quality as compared to other well known real-time techniques for rendering translucency.