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Ray Tracing Gems II Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX Edited by Adam Marrs, Peter Shirley, and Ingo Wald Section Editors Per Christensen David Hart Thomas Müller Jacob Munkberg Angelo Pesce Josef Spjut Michael Vance Cem Yuksel Ray Tracing Gems II: Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, and OptiX Edited by Section Editors Adam Marrs Per Christensen Angelo Pesce Peter Shirley David Hart Josef Spjut Ingo Wald Thomas Müller Michael Vance Jacob Munkberg Cem Yuksel ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4842-7184-1 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4842-7185-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7185-8 Copyright © 2021 by NVIDIA Trademarked names, logos, and images may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, logo, or image we use the names, logos, and images only in an editorial fashion and to the beneft of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. 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Printed on acid-free paper Table of Contents Preface ....................................................................................................... xix Foreword.................................................................................................... xxiii Contributors .............................................................................................. xxix Notation...................................................................................................... lv PART I: Ray Tracing Foundations........................................................... 5 Chapter 1: A Breakneck Summary of Photographic Terms (and Their Utility to Ray Tracing) ........................................................................ 9 1.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 9 1.2 Digital Sensor Technology................................................... 10 1.3 Film......................................................................................... 13 1.4 Common Capture Dimensions............................................ 14 1.5 Common Capture Resolutions............................................ 16 1.6 Lensing................................................................................... 16 1.7 Shutter ................................................................................... 19 1.8 Exposure ................................................................................ 21 1.9 Equivalency............................................................................ 24 1.10 Physical Lenses .................................................................. 26 1.11 Bokeh ................................................................................... 27 1.12 Various Lens Imperfections .............................................. 29 1.13 Optical Elements ................................................................ 33 1.14 Anamorphic ......................................................................... 34 1.15 Camera Movement ............................................................. 34 iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 2: Ray Axis-Aligned Bounding Box Intersection ......................... 37 2.1 The Method............................................................................ 37 Chapter 3: Essential Ray Generation Shaders .......................................... 41 3.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 41 3.2 Camera Rays ......................................................................... 42 3.3 Pinhole Perspective.............................................................. 47 3.4 Thin Lens ............................................................................... 50 3.5 Generalized Panini ............................................................... 52 3.6 Fisheye ................................................................................... 55 3.7 Lenslet ................................................................................... 56 3.8 Octahedral ............................................................................. 58 3.9 Cube Map ............................................................................... 60 3.10 Orthographic ....................................................................... 61 3.11 Fibonacci Sphere ................................................................ 62 Chapter 4: Hacking the Shadow Terminator ............................................. 65 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 66 4.2 Related Work......................................................................... 68 4.3 Moving the Intersection Point in Hindsight....................... 70 4.4 Analysis.................................................................................. 72 4.5 Discussion and Limitations ................................................. 74 4.6 Conclusion............................................................................. 75 Chapter 5: Sampling Textures with Missing Derivatives.......................... 77 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................... 77 5.2 Texture Coordinate Derivatives at Visible Points.............. 78 5.3 Further Applications ............................................................ 84 5.4 Comparison ........................................................................... 85 5.5 Conclusion............................................................................. 85 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 6: Differential Barycentric Coordinates ...................................... 89 6.1 Background ........................................................................... 89 6.2 Method ................................................................................... 91 6.3 Code........................................................................................ 92 Chapter 7: Texture Coordinate Gradients Estimation for Ray Cones....... 95 7.1 Background ........................................................................... 95 7.2 Ray Cone Gradients.............................................................. 97 7.3 Comparison and Results ..................................................... 99 7.4 Sample Code ......................................................................... 102 7.5 Conclusion............................................................................. 102 Chapter 8: Refection and Refraction Formulas ....................................... 105 8.1 Refection............................................................................... 105 8.2 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