Gone in 60 Nanoseconds: Adventures in Transient Rendering

Roland Schregle, Nozomu Yoshizawa
2021 Zenodo  
In our everyday experience, light is perceived, measured and simulated in steady state. However, light travels at finite speed (ca. 300000 km/s in vacuum), and architectural spaces are not infact lit instantaneously. Light is therefore a function of time, and propagates through interiors in very complex and sometimes surprising patterns. This presentation introduces a prototype implementation of a transient photon map in RADIANCE. This extension enables time-of-flight simulations, and renders
more » ... e propagation of light in extreme slow motion. The method is demonstrated through an analysis of transient light transport in the Villa Müller in Prague.
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5336859 fatcat:kn2bivpr7bhhpaqgwaykujs5oi