TY - JOUR
KW - caustics
KW - daylight simulation
KW - light redirection
KW - Monte Carlo
KW - physically based rendering
KW - raytracing
AU - Roland Schregle
AU - Lars Grobe
AU - Stephen Wittkopf
AB - Abstract Daylight redirecting components (DRCs) are characterised by complex transmissive and reflective behaviour that is difficult to predict accurately largely due to their highly directional scattering, and the caustics this produces. This paper examines the application of progressive photon mapping as a state of the art forward raytracing technique to efficiently simulate the behaviour of such DRCs, and how this approach can support architects in assessing their performance.
Progressive photon mapping is an iterative variant of static photon mapping that effects noise reduction through accumulation of results, as well as a reduction in bias inherent to all density estimation methods by reducing the associated bandwidth at a predetermined rate. This not only results in simplified parametrisation for the user, but also provides a preview of the progressively refined simulation, thus making the tool accessible to non-experts as well.
We demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique with an implementation based on the Radiance photon mapping extension and a case study involving retroreflecting prismatic blinds as a representative DRC.
BT - Solar Energy
DO - 10.1016/j.solener.2015.01.041
LA - eng
N2 - Abstract Daylight redirecting components (DRCs) are characterised by complex transmissive and reflective behaviour that is difficult to predict accurately largely due to their highly directional scattering, and the caustics this produces. This paper examines the application of progressive photon mapping as a state of the art forward raytracing technique to efficiently simulate the behaviour of such DRCs, and how this approach can support architects in assessing their performance.
Progressive photon mapping is an iterative variant of static photon mapping that effects noise reduction through accumulation of results, as well as a reduction in bias inherent to all density estimation methods by reducing the associated bandwidth at a predetermined rate. This not only results in simplified parametrisation for the user, but also provides a preview of the progressively refined simulation, thus making the tool accessible to non-experts as well.
We demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique with an implementation based on the Radiance photon mapping extension and a case study involving retroreflecting prismatic blinds as a representative DRC.
PY - 2015
SP - 327 
EP -  336
T2 - Solar Energy
TI - Progressive photon mapping for daylight redirecting components
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X15000559
VL - 114
SN - 0038-092X
ER -