Ray Tracing Animated Scenes using Motion Decomposition

Though ray tracing has recently become interactive, its high precomputation time for building spatial indices usually limits its applications to walkthroughs of static scenes. This is a major limitation, as most applications demand support for dynamically animated models. In this paper, we present a...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 517 - 525
Main Authors: Günther, Johannes, Friedrich, Heiko, Wald, Ingo, Seidel, Hans-Peter, Slusallek, Philipp
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK and Boston, USA Blackwell Publishing, Inc 01.09.2006
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:
Animation
Computer graphics
Computer programming
Fuzzy logic
Movement
Studies
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:Though ray tracing has recently become interactive, its high precomputation time for building spatial indices usually limits its applications to walkthroughs of static scenes. This is a major limitation, as most applications demand support for dynamically animated models. In this paper, we present a new approach to ray trace a special but important class of dynamic scenes, namely models whose connectivity does not change over time and for which all possible poses are known in advance. We support these kinds of models by introducing two new concepts: motion decomposition, and fuzzy kd‐trees. We analyze the animation and break the model down into submeshes with similar motion. For each of these submeshes and for every time step, we calculate a best affine transformation through a least square approach. Any residual motion is then captured in a single "fuzzy kd‐tree" for the entire animation. Together, these techniques allow for ray tracing animations without rebuilding the spatial index structures for the submeshes, resulting in interactive frame rates of 5 to 15 fps even on a single CPU. Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.7 [Computer Graphics]: Ray tracing I.3.6 [Methodology and Techniques]: Graphics data structures and data types
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2006.00971.x