Honors Program
University Honors
Date of Award
5-2017
Thesis Professor(s)
Martin Fitzgerald
Thesis Professor Department
Engineering Technology, Surveying, and Digital Media
Thesis Reader(s)
Jonathan Hounshell, Richard Ignace
Abstract
Modernity in the computer graphics community is characterized by a burgeoning interest in physically based rendering techniques. That is to say that mathematical reasoning from first principles is widely preferred to ad hoc, approximate reasoning in blind pursuit of photorealism. Thereby, the purpose of our research is to investigate the efficacy of explicit electrodynamical modeling by means of the generalized Jones vector given by Azzam [1] and the generalized Jones matrix given by Ortega-Quijano & Arce-Diego [2] in the context of stochastic light transport simulation for computer graphics. To augment the status quo path tracing framework with such a modeling technique would permit a plethora of complex optical effects—including dispersion, birefringence, dichroism, and thin film interference, and the physical optical elements associated with these effects—to become naturally supported, fully integrated features in physically based rendering software.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Saunders, Michael G., "Electrodynamical Modeling for Light Transport Simulation" (2017). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 373. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/373
Copyright
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