Print Email Facebook Twitter A Comparative Information Visualization Approach to Physically-Based Rendering Title A Comparative Information Visualization Approach to Physically-Based Rendering Author Simons, G.J.C. Contributor Eisemann, E. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Computer Graphics and Visualization Programme Computer Science Date 2015-06-19 Abstract In this work we present a novel information visualization framework to gain in- sight into the light transport in a physically-based rendering setting. The framework consists of a sampling-based data reduction technique, an extended interactive parallel coordinates plot that provides an overview of the attributes linked to each light sample, 2D and 3D heat maps to represent different aspects of the rendering process, as well as a three-dimensional view to display and animate the light path transportation through- out the scene. Furthermore the interactivity of the visualizations enables users to guide the rendering process. We show several applications that make use of the presented framework, including differential light transport visualization to optimize lighting in a scene, thereby improving the rendering times when changing scene properties and finding and resolving rendering bottlenecks. Subject computer graphicsvisualizationphysically-based rendering To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0875db87-5a7a-4abc-b5ef-06e8a487a1cd Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2015 Simons, G.J.C. Files PDF Thesis_GerardSimons1358413.pdf 28.39 MB MP4 Thesis_GerardSimons1358413.mp4 18.72 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0875db87-5a7a-4abc-b5ef-06e8a487a1cd/datastream/OBJ1/view