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Focus On Photon Mapping (Premier Press Game Development)

ISBN: 1592000088
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 128

Authors: Marlon John

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• Main page
• Table of contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Letter from the Series Editor
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Understanding the Nature of Light
• Understanding Waves
• Understanding the Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Considering Shadows
• Summary
• Chapter 2. What Is Color?
• Colors and Computers
• Creating the Color Class
• Using Color Operators
• Defining the Basic Colors
• The PPM Format
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Reflection and Refraction
• What Is a Ray?
• What Is Reflection?
• Diffuse Reflection
• Specular (Mirror) Reflection
• What Is Refraction?
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Global Illumination
• The Photon
• Light Shading
• Flux
• Light Transport Notation
• Direct and Indirect Illumination
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Other Rendering Techniques
• The Basics
• View or Image Plane
• Frustum
• Field of View
• Ray Tracing
• Distributed Ray Tracing
• Radiosity
• HybridMulti-passRadiosity
• Backward Ray Tracing Illustration
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Basic Structures
• Using Vectors and Points
• Finding the Plane in Which a Polygon Triangle Sits
• Creating a Light Source
• Using the Ray
• Adding Reflection and Refraction Features
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Developing Your Application
• Defining Your Materials
• Using Primitives for Simulation
• Incorporating the Sphere Primitive
• Creating a Triangle Primitive
• Creating and Using the Object Class
• Designing the Scene
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Summary
• Chapter 8. The Rest of the Puzzle
• Understanding the Coordinate Systems
• Implementing the Camera into the Scene
• Importing the Scene from a File
• Declaring Attribute Primitives
• Setting Up the Scene Classes
• Determining the Scene Primitives
• Reading the Data into the Scene
• Upgrading the cScene Class
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Ray Tracing
• Using Backward Ray Tracing
• Implementing the Shading and the Lighting
• Upgrading cScene for Ray Tracing
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Program 1: Ray Tracer 1
• Revisiting Reflection and Refraction
• Program 2: Ray Tracer 2
• Simulating Shadow Rays
• Program 3: Ray Tracer 3
• Summary
• Chapter 10. Photon Mapping in a Nutshell
• The Goal
• Problems with Ray Tracing and Radiosity
• The Concept Behind Photon Mapping
• The Solution
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Photon Tracing
• Understanding the Structure of a Photon
• The Photon-Mapping Algorithm s Two-Pass Method
• Designing the Photon Map Class
• Incorporating Simple Scattering
• Incorporating Proportional Light Scattering
• Storing Your Photons
• Absorbing Light
• Transmitting and Reflecting Light
• Playing Russian Roulette
• Summary
• Chapter 12. Photon Rendering
• Implementing Photon Mapping
• Using the PhotonMap Class
• Using the Upgraded cScene Class
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Summary
• Chapter 13. Advanced Searching
• Using Spatial Subdivision
• Using the KD Tree Algorithm
• Building the KD Tree
• Searching the KD Tree
• Implementing the KD Tree
• Using the Chapter s Code
• Summary
• Chapter 14. The Power of Photon Mapping
• Simulating Diffuse Interactions
• Simulating Diffuse Reflections
• Simulating Specular Reflections
• Simulating Caustics with Photon Mapping
• Simulating Indirect Illumination
• Creating Better Penumbras in Shadows
• Using the Chapter s Source Code
• Using Photon Mapping in Games
• BSP Trees and Photon Mapping
• Summary
• Wrapping Up