A Novel Ray-shooting Method to Render Night Urban Scenes - A Method based on Polar Diagrams

M. D. Robles-Ortega, J. R. Jiménez, L. Ortega

2014

Abstract

Illumination and shadows are essential to obtain realistic virtual environments. Nevertheless, large scenes like urban cities demand a huge amount of geometry that must somehow be structured or reduced in order to be manageable. In this paper we propose a novel real-time method to determine the shadowed and illuminated areas in large scenes, specially suitable for urban environments. Our approach uses the polar diagram as a tessellation plane, and a ray-casting process to obtain the visible areas. This solution derives the exact illuminated area with a high performance. Moreover, our approach is also used to determine the visible portion of the scene from a pedestrian viewpoint. As a result, we only have to render the visible part of the scene, which is considerably lower than the global scene.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Robles-Ortega M., Jiménez J. and Ortega L. (2014). A Novel Ray-shooting Method to Render Night Urban Scenes - A Method based on Polar Diagrams . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-002-4, pages 53-63. DOI: 10.5220/0004718800530063

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp14,
author={M. D. Robles-Ortega and J. R. Jiménez and L. Ortega},
title={A Novel Ray-shooting Method to Render Night Urban Scenes - A Method based on Polar Diagrams},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={53-63},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004718800530063},
isbn={978-989-758-002-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - A Novel Ray-shooting Method to Render Night Urban Scenes - A Method based on Polar Diagrams
SN - 978-989-758-002-4
AU - Robles-Ortega M.
AU - Jiménez J.
AU - Ortega L.
PY - 2014
SP - 53
EP - 63
DO - 10.5220/0004718800530063