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....explicitly by the rendering software. Reflectance and transmittance coefficients can be found from Fresnel formulae. Our rendering system uses full Fresnel expressions which can be found in any standard optics text, but a highly efficient and accurate approximation by Schlick is also available [18]. 3.2. Within the water Once photons from the sun and the sky pass through the air water surface, they initiate a complex chain of scattering and absorption events within the water body. The behavior of radiance within natural water bodies is governed by the radiance transfer equation, a ....

C. Schlick. An inexpensive BRDF model for physically-based rendering. Computer Graphics Fo r um , 13(3):233--246, 1994.

....parameters is important. We present a new BRDF model that is motivated by practical issues. A full rationalization for the model and comparison with previous models is provided in a seperate technical report [1] The BRDF model described in the paper is inspired by the models of Ward [8] Schlick [6], and Neimann and Neumann [5] However, it has several desirable properties not previously captured by a single model. In particular, it 1. obeys energy conservation and reciprocity laws, 2. allows anisotropic reflection, giving the streaky appearance seen on brushed metals, 3. is controlled by ....

....and a red substrate. 3 Figure 4: An image with a Lamertian sphere (left) and a sphere with n u = n v =5. After a figure from Lafortune et al. 4] 2 The Model The specular component # s of the BRDF is: 8# h) 2) In our implementation we use Schlick s approximation to Fresnel fraction [6]: h) R s (1 R s ) 1 (k h) 3) a b scalar (dot) product of vectors a and b k 1 normalized vector to light k 2 normalized vector to viewer n surface normal u, v tangent vectors that form an orthonormal basis along with n. #(k 1 , k 2 ) BRDF h normalized half vector ....

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Christophe Schlick. An inexpensive BRDF model for physically-based rendering. Computer Graphics Fo r um , 13(3):233---246, 1994.

....conservation in the presence of Fresnel behavior. 6. Monte Carlo friendliness: there should be some reasonable probability density function that allows straightforward Monte Carlo sample generation for the BRDF. Neumann et al. s metallic model [6] captures items 1, 3, 4, and 6. Schlick s model [8] captures items. Ward s model [10] captures items 2, and 3. It only violates 1 for energy conservation at grazing angles. It also approximates Monte Carlo friendliness by giving a sample generation method but does not specify what the underlying density function is. Our goal is to find a BRDF ....

....and set c # =1we will guarantee that our model will conserve energy since p h (h) integrates to one over the hemisphere. Putting all this together, we arrive at the final form of our anisotropic specular BRDF: 8# In our implementation we use Schlick s approximation to Fresnel fraction [8]: F ( kh) R s (1 R s ) 1 , 11) where R s is material sreflectance for the normal incidence. As a visualization of the energy normalization of the model, we rendered a variety of spheres with different parameters shown in Figure 2. The spheres are in a furnace with radiance one in ....

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Christophe Schlick. An inexpensive BRDF model for physically-based rendering. Computer Graphics Forum, 13(3):233---246, 1994.

....terms [4] Refraction and reflection can be easily simulated taking into account ray optics based on Snell s law. A less accurate approximation of the Fresnel term which models the dependence of the reflectance from the incoming light direction and the surface s index of refraction was given in [14]. This approximation to the physically accurate BRDF will be used in our approach as well. In addition, caustics that are based on diverging refractions of wavefront at water surfaces have been simulated quite pleasantly in [17] An approximative simulation of ray beams refracted through water ....

....texture unit 1, but now only the underwater environment is accessed. To produce a more natural look texture values from unit 0 and unit 1 are blended using a reflectivity term # . An accurate approximation of # can be obtained as a function of the surface normal and the view vector as proposed in [14]: # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # where # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # is the reflectivity at incident angle, which is # # # for water. However, by choosing this value the surface might look less reflective than real water because the refractive index ....

C. Schlick. An inexpensive BRDF model for physically-based rendering. Computer Graphics Forum, 13(3):C/233--C/246, 1994.

....being the models introduced by Gouraud [6] and Phong [15] These two initial models were meant to be used with hand chosen parameters, and thus these parameters are intuitive. A variety of more complex methods have been introduced to improve characteristics of the Phong model for efficiency [19], to include anisotropy [26] and enforce physical constraints such as reciprocity [9] Other models have been developed to fit measurement data as opposed to being intuitive [10] Figure 1: Images generated using the new BRDF model with unusual microfacet distributions. The BRDFs used to create ....

....(f0 R(k) can become negative for some surfaces due to our approximation. We simply set the diffuse term to zero in such cases. 5.2 Implementation Issues Implementation of our model in a rendering system is straightforward. For the Fresnel coefficient we use Schlick s approximate formula [19] F ( kn) f0 (1 f0) 1 (kn) 5 (31) where again f0 is the Fresnel factor at normal incidence. Note that we could also use the full Fresnel equations, but we use Schlick s formula only for convenience. This should not lead to significant accuracy problems as for the error introduced ....

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SCHLICK, C. An inexpensive BRDF model for physically-based rendering. Computer Graphics Forum 13, 3 (1994), 233---246.

....be identical everywhere. The losses affecting the transmittance in a inhomogeneous medium can be simulated through successive application of the laws for homogeneous medium [4] Another alternative is to think of an inhomogeneous material as a structure composed of two or more homogeneous layers [188]. The reader interested in the spectrophotometry regarding the transmittance in inhomogeneous materials is referred to the text by MacAdam [151] FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICALLY BASED RENDERING 23 F i ( l ) ######## ######## ######## ######## ######## ######## ######## ######## ######## ....

....(Chapter 3) and computer graphics. In this section we will focus the discussion on reflectance models aimed at rendering applications, with a particular emphasis on works that are considered milestones in this area. More comprehensive surveys on this topic can be found in the papers by Schlick [188, 189] and in the book by Glassner [86] 2.6.1 Ad Hoc and Transitional Models In 1975 Phong introduced a model [176] known as the Phong model, in which an ad hoc exponentiated cosine is used to simulate specular highlights. Afterwards, Blinn [29] proposed a variant of the Phong model based on similar ....

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Schlick, C. An inexpensive brdf model for physically-based rendering. Proc. of European Association for Computer Graphicas Conference and Exhibition - EUROGRAPHICS 13, 3 (1994), 233--246.

....explicitly by the rendering software. Reflectance and transmittance coefficients can be found from Fresnel formulae. Our rendering system uses full Fresnel expressions which can be found in any standard optics text, but a highly efficient and accurate approximation by Schlick is also available [19]. 3.2 Within the Water Once photons from the sun and the sky passed through the air water surface, they initiate a complex chain of scattering and absorption events within the water body. The behavior of radiance within natural water bodies is governed by the radiance transfer equation, a ....

Christophe Schlick. An inexpensive BRDF model for physically-based rendering. Computer Graphics Forum, 13(3):233---246, 1994. 9 Fig. 5. Island at sunset Fig. 6. Crater Lake -- fresh water lake in Oregon. 10 Fig. 7. Different atmospheric conditions and whitecaps

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