Global Illumination

Insight into the developed procedure LightSkin

The basic idea of the method is to extend an instant radiosity approach, such as the Reflective Shadow maps, in such a way that a continuous indirect lighting for the entire scene can be calculated in real time without producing disturbing artifacts in animations and without limiting the sphere of influence of the indirect light (e.g. by restricting the propagation of the indirect light).

The LightSkin method has the following advantages or innovations compared to existing global real-time lighting methods:

• Imaging of physically plausible diffuse indirect reflections
• Imaging of optically plausible shiny indirect reflections,
• Imaging of soft shadows,
• Mapping of multiple subsurface scattering effects,
• significant reduction of temporary inconsistencies in animations,
• Support of animations without additional computing effort,
• low memory requirements,
• a simple adaptation for Augmented Reality applications for photometric interaction between dynamic real and virtual scenes using an RGB-D sensor