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Real-time realistic illumination and shading of stratiform clouds Antoine Bouthors, Fabrice Neyret, Sylvain Lefebvre Evasion-GRAVIR / IMAG-INRIA Grenoble, France Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena Motivations Clouds are very complex: Complex shape Lots of visual features Lots of details No one has reproduced everything yet Cloud facts Clouds types Multiple scattering No absorption, albedo = 1 Thick (up to several km) Dense (Mean free path = several meters) → Very high number of scattering events (up to several hundreds) Mie phase function Strongly anisotropic Computationally expensive Droplet size distribution One common phase function for the whole cloud Visual features Fogbow glory Visual features Anisotropic forward scattering Diffusive multiple scattering Visual features Pseudo-specular effect Visual features Clouds-ground inter-reflections Previous workOffline approaches Previous workInteractive approaches Different approximations: Low albedo / low density → single scattering Simpler phase function → not all features Diffusion approximation → isotropic Volumetric models Very coarse Billboards or slices Lots of overdraw Our Model Overview What we assume: Stratiform → locally equivalent to a slab Homogeneous density What we want: Realistic Real-time (GPU-friendly) Allow animation Overview Complex behavior Rays with different orders of scattering Our idea: a study of the contribution of each order Overview Our analysis: Narrow forward scattering only important on silhouettes (low orders) Low orders of scattering give anisotropic features (fogbow, glory, pseudo-specular) Higher orders become diffusive (i.e. isotropic) Sky and ground play a role Sky illuminance = ~25% of that of the sun Standard floor reflectance = ~20% Overview Our analysis: Narrow forward scattering only important on silhouettes (low orders) Low orders of scattering give anisotropic features (fogbow, glory, pseudo-specular) Higher orders become diffusive (i.e. isotropi