Week 7 -Wednesday What did we talk about last time? Exam 1 Before - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Week 7 -Wednesday

 What did we talk about last time?  Exam 1  Before that  Specular and diffuse shading  Aliasing

VertexPositionNormalTexture[] vertices = new VertexPositionNormalTexture[36] { // Front face //Bottom face new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, 1), -Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, 1), Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, 1), Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, 1), -Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, 1), Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, 1), -Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(0, 1)), //Right face //Top face new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, -1), Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, -1), Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, -1), Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, 1), Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, -1), Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, 1), Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, 1), Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, -1), Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, -1), Vector3.UnitY, new Vector2(0, 1)), //Left face //Back face new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, 1), -Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, -1), -Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, 1), -Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, -1), -Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, -1), -Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, 1, -1), -Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(.5f, 0)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, 1), -Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(1, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(-1, -1, -1), -Vector3.UnitX, new Vector2(0, 1)), new VertexPositionNormalTexture(new Vector3(1, 1, -1), -Vector3.UnitZ, new Vector2(0, 1)), }; Note: These cube vertices are what we did in class. They might not be organized in the most helpful way, and their texture coordinates are totally wrong.

 When sampling any continuous thing (image, sound, wave) into a discrete environment (like the computer), multiple samples can end up being indistinguishable from each other  This is called aliasing  We can reduce aliasing by carefully considering how sampling and reconstruction of the signal is done

 Ever seen wheels of a car spinning the wrong way?  Without enough samples, it may be impossible to tell which way it's spinning  You need a sampling frequency twice as high as the maximum frequency of the events to reconstruct the original signal  Called the Nyquist limit

 Jaggies are caused by insufficient sampling  A simple method to increase sampling is full-scene antialiasing , which essentially renders to a higher resolution and then averages neighboring pixels together  The accumulation buffer method is similar, except that the rendering is done with tiny offsets and the pixel values summed together

A variety of FSAA schemes exist with different tradeoffs between quality and computational cost

 For non-interactive render speeds, the A-buffer can be used  The A-buffer generates a coverage mask for each fragment for each pixel  Fragments are thrown away if they have z -buffer values that are higher than fragments with full coverage  Final pixel color is based on fragment merging

 Supersampling techniques (like FSAA) are very expensive because the full shader has to run multiple times  Multisample antialiasing ( MSAA ) attempts to sample the same pixel multiple times but only run the shader once  Expensive angle calculations can be done once while different texture colors can be averaged  Color samples are not averaged if they are off the edge of a pixel

 Active research is still trying to find techniques with good visual output and good computational performance  Stochastic (random) sampling reduces the visual repetition of some artifacts  Sharing samples between pixels can reduce overall cost

 Transparency  Texturing basics

 Keep working on Project 2  Keep reading Chapter 6  Transparency  Textures