László Szirmay-Kalos, Gábor Liktor, Tamás Umenhoffer, Balázs Tóth
Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University of Budapest,
Budapest, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, H-1117, HUNGARY
szirmay@iit.bme.hu
Abstract:
This paper presents a fast approximation for the solution of the radiative transfer equation in inhomogeneous participating media. This scheme traces rays from the point light creating spherical wavefronts. While we march on a particular ray, we assume that other rays find similar material properties, which allows the solution of the diffusion equation for this ray. The proposed approximation of the scattered component can be computed in parallel with obtaining the direct term at practically no additional cost. The approximation may be used for direct visualization, an initial guess for an iterative solution, or for the main part of a Monte Carlo solution.
Keywords:
Participating media, radiative transfer equation, Main part separation, diffusion solution