Shading

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Chapter 6

• Shading

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Objectives

• Learn to shade objects so their images appear
  three-dimensional
• Introduce the types of light-material
  interactions
• Build a simple reflection model---the Phong
  model--- that can be used with real time graphics
  hardware

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Why we need shading

• Suppose we build a model of a sphere using many
  polygons and color it with glColor. We get
  something like
• But we want

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Shading

• Why does the image of a real sphere look like
• Light-material interactions cause each point to
  have a different color or shade
• Need to consider
• Light sources
• Material properties
• Location of viewer
• Surface orientation

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Scattering

• Light strikes A
• Some scattered
• Some absorbed
• Some of scattered light strikes B
• Some scattered
• Some absorbed
• Some of this scatterd
• light strikes A
• and so on

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Rendering Equation

• The infinite scattering and absorption of light
  can be described by the rendering equation
• Cannot be solved in general
• Ray tracing is a special case for perfectly
  reflecting surfaces
• Rendering equation is global and includes
• Shadows
• Multiple scattering from object to object

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Global Effects
shadow
multiple reflection
translucent surface
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Local versus Global Rendering

• Correct shading requires a global calculation
  involving all objects and light sources
• Incompatible with pipeline model which shades
  each polygon independently (local rendering)
• However, in computer graphics, especially real
  time graphics, we are happy if things look
  right
• Exist many techniques for approximating global
  effects

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Computer Viewing
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Light-Material Interaction

• Light that strikes an object is partially
  absorbed and partially scattered (reflected)
• The amount reflected determines the color and
  brightness of the object
• A surface appears red under white light because
  the red component of the light is reflected and
  the rest is absorbed
• The reflected light is scattered in a manner that
  depends on the smoothness and orientation of the
  surface

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Surface Types

• The smoother a surface, the more reflected light
  is concentrated in the direction a perfect mirror
  would reflected the light
• A very rough surface scatters light in all
  directions

specular
diffuse
translucent
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Light Sources

• Each point on the light sourceI(x, y, z, ?, ?,
  ?)
• General light sources are difficult to work with
  because we must integrate light coming from all
  points on the source

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Color Sources

• Consider a light source through a three-component
  intensity or luminance function

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Simple Light Sources 1/3

• Ambient light
• Same amount of light everywhere in scene
• Can model contribution of many sources and
  reflecting surfaces

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Simple Light Sources 2/3

• Point source
• Model with position and color
• Distant source infinite distance away
  (parallel)
• Replacing a point by a direction vector

umbra
penumbra
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Simple Light Sources 3/3

• Spotlight
• Restrict light from ideal point source

f
f
q
-q
-q
q
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Phong Model

• A simple model that can be computed rapidly
• Has three components
• Diffuse
• Specular
• Ambient
• Uses four vectors
• To source
• To viewer
• Normal
• Perfect reflector

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Light Sources

• In the Phong Model, we add the results from each
  light source
• Each light source has separate diffuse, specular,
  and ambient terms to allow for maximum
  flexibility even though this form does not have a
  physical justification
• Separate red, green and blue components
• Hence, 9 coefficients for each point source
• Idr, Idg, Idb, Isr, Isg, Isb, Iar, Iag, Iab

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Material Properties

• Material properties match light source properties
• Nine absorbtion coefficients
• kdr, kdg, kdb, ksr, ksg, ksb, kar, kag, kab
• Shininess coefficient a

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Ambient Reflection

• Ambient light is the result of multiple
  interactions between (large) light sources and
  the objects in the environment
• Amount and color depend on both the color of the
  light(s) and the material properties of the
  object
• Add ka Ia to diffuse and specular terms

reflection coef
intensity of ambient light
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Diffuse Reflection 1/2

• Perfectly diffuse reflector (Lambertian Surface)
• Light scattered equally in all directions

Rough Surface
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Diffuse Reflection 2/2

• Amount of light reflected is proportional to the
  vertical component of incoming light
• reflected light cos qi
• cos qi l n if vectors normalized
• There are also three coefficients, kr, kb, kg
  that show how much of each color component is
  reflected

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Specular Surfaces

• Most surfaces are neither ideal diffusers nor
  perfectly specular (ideal refectors)
• Smooth surfaces show specular highlights due to
  incoming light being reflected in directions
  concentrated close to the direction of a perfect
  reflection

specular highlight
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Modeling Specular Reflections

• Phong proposed using a term that dropped off as
  the angle between the viewer and the ideal
  reflection increased

Ir ks I cosaf
f
shininess coef
reflected intensity
incoming intensity
absorption coef
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The Shininess Coefficients

• Values of a between 100 and 200 correspond to
  metals
• Values between 5 and 10 give surface that look
  like plastic

cosa f
90
f
-90
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Distance Terms

• The light from a point source that reaches a
  surface is inversely proportional to the square
  of the distance between them
• We can add a factor of the
• form 1/(ad bd cd2) to
• the diffuse and specular
• terms
• The constant and linear terms soften the effect
  of the point source

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Examples

• Only differences in
• these teapots are
• the parameters
• in the Phong model

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Computation of Vectors

• Normal vectors
• Reflection vector

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Normal for Triangle
n
p2
plane n (p - p0 ) 0
p
p1
p0
normalize n ? n/ n
Note that right-hand rule determines outward face
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Normal for Sphere
Tangent plane to a sphere
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Ideal Reflector

• Normal is determined by local orientation
• Angle of incidence angle of relection
• The three vectors must be coplanar

r 2 (l n ) n - l
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Halfway Vector
?
x
?
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Transmitted Light
Snells Law
?l
?t
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Critical Angle
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Polygonal Shading

• Shading calculations are done for each vertex
• Vertex colors become vertex shades
• By default, vertex colors are interpolated across
  the polygon
• glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH)
• If we use glShadeModel(GL_FLAT) the color at the
  first vertex will determine the color of the
  whole polygon

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Flat Shading

• Polygons have a single normal
• Shades at the vertices as computed by the Phong
  model can be almost same
• Identical for a distant viewer (default) or if
  there is no specular component
• Consider model of sphere
• Want different normals at
• each vertex even though
• this concept is not quite
• correct mathematically

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Smooth Shading

• We can set a new normal at each vertex
• Easy for sphere model
• If centered at origin n p
• Now smooth shading works
• Note silhouette edge

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Mesh Shading 1/2

• The previous example is not general because we
  knew the normal at each vertex analytically
• For polygonal models, Gouraud proposed we use the
  average of normals around a mesh vertex

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Mesh Shading 2/2
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Gouraud and Phong Shading

• Gouraud Shading
• Find average normal at each vertex (vertex
  normals)
• Apply Phong model at each vertex
• Interpolate vertex shades across each polygon
• Phong shading
• Find vertex normals
• Interpolate vertex normals across edges
• Find normals along edges
• Interpolate edge normals across polygons
• Find shade from its normal for each point in the
  polygon

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Phong Shading
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Comparison

• If the polygon mesh approximates surfaces with a
  high curvatures, Phong shading may look smooth
  while Gouraud shading may show edges
• Phong shading requires much more work than
  Gouraud shading
• Usually not available in real time systems
• Both need data structures to represent meshes so
  we can obtain vertex normals

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Approximation of a Sphere by Recursive Subdivision

• Start with a tetrahedron whose four vertices are
  on a unit sphere

y
z
x
x
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Recursive Subdivision 1/3

• void triangle(point3 a, point3 b, point3 c)
• glBegin(GL_LINE_LOOP)
• glVertex3fv(a)
• glVertex3fv(b)
• glVertex3fv(c)
• glEnd()
• Void tetrahedron()
• triangle(v0, v1, v2)
• triangle(v3, v2, v1)
• triangle(v0, v3, v1)
• triangle(v0, v2, v3)

0
3
1
2
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Recursive Subdivision 2/3
Bisecting angles
Computing the centrum
Bisecting sides
void normal(point3 p) double d0.0 int
i for(i0 ilt3 i) dpipi dsqrt(d)
if(dgt0.0) for (i0 ilt3 i) pi/d
Normalization
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Recursive Subdivision 3/3

• void divide_triangle(point3 a, point3 b, point3
  c, int n)
• point3 v1, v2, v3
• int j
• if(ngt0)
• for(j0 jlt3 j) v1jajbj
• normal(v1)
• for(j0 jlt3 j) v2jajcj
• normal(v2)
• for(j0 jlt3 j) v3jcjbj
• normal(v3)
• divide_triangle(a, v1, v2, n-1)
• divide_triangle(c, v2, v3, n-1)
• divide_triangle(b, v3, v1, n-1)
• divide_triangle(v1, v3, v2, n-1)
• else
• triangle(a, b, c)

a
v1
v2
c
b
v3
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Front and Back Faces

• The default is shade only front faces which works
  correct for convex objects
• If we set two sided lighting, OpenGL will shaded
  both sides of a surface
• Each side can have its own properties which are
  set by using GL_FRONT, GL_BACK, or
  GL_FRONT_AND_BACK in glMaterialf

back faces not visible
back faces visible
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Moving Light Sources

• Light sources are geometric objects whose
  positions or directions are affected by the
  model-view matrix
• Depending on where we place the position
  (direction) setting function, we can
• Move the light source(s) with the object(s)
• Fix the object(s) and move the light source(s)
• Fix the light source(s) and move the object(s)
• Move the light source(s) and object(s)
  independently

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Transparency

• Material properties are specified as RGBA values
• The A value can be used to make the surface
  translucent
• The default is that all surfaces are opaque
  regardless of A
• Later we will enable blending and use this feature

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Polygon Normals

• Polygons have a single normal
• Shades at the vertices as computed by the Phong
  model can be almost the same
• Identical for a distant viewer (default) or if
  there is no specular component
• Consider model of sphere
• Want different normals at
• each vertex even though
• this concept is not quite
• correct mathematically

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Global Rendering

• Ray Tracing and Radiosity
• Use the original pipelineto simulate some
  globaleffect

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Summary and Notes

• Why do we need shading?
• What does shading do?
• Ambient, diffuse, specular terms
• Local shading versus global shading