Atmospheric Scattering - Out-scattering integral solution?

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Started by WarAmp September 23, 2011 08:09 PM

4 comments, last by WarAmp 12 years, 6 months ago

WarAmp

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September 23, 2011 08:09 PM

I'm not sure if this should be here or in the Math & Physics forum, if the mods want to move it, I won't complain.

I think I may have solved the Out-scattering integral as given in the GPU-Gems 2 article on atmospheric scattering.

I've written a solution and explanation on my crappy blog.

I would love it if some of you fine folks could go over my solution for me and let me know if I'm right, and perhaps even figure out how to apply it to solving the full In-scattering integral as well.

Thanks!

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victorqhong

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September 24, 2011 07:36 PM

Hi WarAmp,

Looking at your results it seems like your analytical solution is correct. The strange thing is that in all of the atmospheric scatting papers I've read, none have mentioned that this integral can by solved this way. They always rely on look-up tables or different sampling techniques. Funny thing is that I think Sean O'neil was getting close to analytically solving the integral in the article itself (section 16.4.1).

Inigo Quilez presents a solution similar to yours on an article on his website (link) if you would like to compare.

Victor

WarAmp

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September 25, 2011 08:39 AM

Yea, his look-up table solution is pretty similar isn't it? And so is Inigo's. That's good, it makes me a bit more confident that I'm on the right track

Thanks for taking the time to look at it.

I think I can solve the In-scattering portion as well, I just need a way to figure out how to determine the distance to the edge of a circle along a line in 2D, given very limited information. I'll post more here if I can ever figure it out.

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lauris71

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September 25, 2011 08:47 PM

Maybe I misunderstood something, but IMHO:

h =/= ((A + (C*x/N)) - R)

i.e. altitude is not a linear function. You can start from upper atmosphere (A), go through point at sea level and end in upper atmosphere again (B).

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Narf the Mouse

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September 25, 2011 09:42 PM

Yea, his look-up table solution is pretty similar isn't it? And so is Inigo's. That's good, it makes me a bit more confident that I'm on the right track

Thanks for taking the time to look at it.

I think I can solve the In-scattering portion as well, I just need a way to figure out how to determine the distance to the edge of a circle along a line in 2D, given very limited information. I'll post more here if I can ever figure it out.

...Isn't the distance to a circle from a line just part of a collision check?

OTOH, I'm probably misunderstanding something.

Are you going to put this in an article when you're done?

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WarAmp

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September 26, 2011 02:36 AM

Maybe I misunderstood something, but IMHO:

h =/= ((A + (C*x/N)) - R)

i.e. altitude is not a linear function. You can start from upper atmosphere (A), go through point at sea level and end in upper atmosphere again (B).

Oohhhhh shiiiitttt. You are right. Seems like my solution is only good for flat-plane surfaces.

Well, thats why I posted it on here in the first place

So I guess the proper solution would actually involve taking the magnitude of the point, not just the interpolated value. I'll see if I can figure that out.

Thanks for noticing! I guess it's still valid for planes though, which is something.

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