SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Poster

Efficient and Accurate Physically Based Rendering of Periodic Multilayer Structures with Iridescence

Yoshiki Kaminaka
Toru Higaki
Bisser Raytchev
Kazufumi Kaneda

Rendering results of the Vase model made of silicon material coated with various periodaic multilayer films.

Abstruct

We propose a method for rendering iridescence caused by periodic multilayer structures by employing Huxley's approach. Our approach can compute multilayer interference efficiently and accurately.

Additional Results

Rendering results of a sphere coated alternately with layers of melanin and cuticle at different iteration counts p.

Rendering times for each method with different iteration counts p. (Resolution: 300 × 300)

Video

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP22K12092.

Reference

Hideki Hirayama, Kazufumi Kaneda, Hideo Yamashita, Yoshiki Yamaji, and Yoshimi Monden. 2001. Visualization of optical phenomena caused by multilayer films based on wave optics. The Visual Computer 17, 2 (Mar. 2001), 106-120. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/PL00013402.
Ibón Guillén, Julio Marco, Diego Gutierrez, Wenzel Jakob, and Adrian Jarabo. 2020. A General Framework for Pearlescent Materials. ACM Trans. Graph. 39, 6 (Nov. 2020). https://doi.org/10.1145/3414685.3417782.

Publication

Yoshiki Kaminaka, Toru Higaki, Bisser Raytchev, and Kazufumi Kaneda. 2023. Efficient and Accurate Physically Based Rendering of Periodic Multilayer Structures with Iridescence. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Posters (Dec. 2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610542.3626137