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Hardware Acceleration of Progressive Refinement Radiosity using Nvidia RTX

Graphics 2023-03-28 v1

Abstract

A vital component of photo-realistic image synthesis is the simulation of indirect diffuse reflections, which still remain a quintessential hurdle that modern rendering engines struggle to overcome. Real-time applications typically pre-generate diffuse lighting information offline using radiosity to avoid performing costly computations at run-time. In this thesis we present a variant of progressive refinement radiosity that utilizes Nvidia's novel RTX technology to accelerate the process of form-factor computation without compromising on visual fidelity. Through a modern implementation built on DirectX 12 we demonstrate that offloading radiosity's visibility component to RT cores significantly improves the lightmap generation process and potentially propels it into the domain of real-time.

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@article{arxiv.2303.14831,
  title  = {Hardware Acceleration of Progressive Refinement Radiosity using Nvidia RTX},
  author = {Benjamin Kahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.14831},
  year   = {2023}
}

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114 pages

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