Cubemap-based Ambient Occlusion for Character Animation

Title

Cubemap-based Ambient Occlusion for Character Animation

 Author

Kroon, Mirco (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Contributor

Eisemann, E. (mentor) ORCID 0000-0003-4153-065X
Marroquim, Ricardo (graduation committee) ORCID 0000-0001-8299-7067
Khosla, M. (graduation committee) ORCID 0000-0002-0319-3181

 Degree granting institution

Delft University of Technology

 Programme

Computer Science | Software Technology

 Date

2023-06-16

 Abstract

Simulating lighting is one of the most important parts of rendering 3D scenes. While lighting coming directly from a light source is easy to simulate in real-time, indirect illumination is more difficult. One of the methods used to convincingly approximate indirect illumination is ambient occlusion, where the brightness of objects is reduced when there is geometry nearby, most visible in corners and crevices.

To render ambient occlusion in real-time often requires shortcuts that leave out some important lighting cues when geometry is not directly visible on screen. Our method aims to improve this specifically for character animation by pre-calculating the occlusion and storing it in a compact data format using cubemaps. This method has the potential to improve both visual quality and rendering performance.

 Subject

rendering
ambient occlusion
lighting
graphics

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Student theses

 Document type

master thesis

 Rights

© 2023 Mirco Kroon
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