An Area-Preserving Parametrization for Spherical Rectangles

作者:Urena Carlos*; Fajardo Marcos; King Alan
来源:Computer Graphics Forum, 2013, 32(4): 59-66.
DOI:10.1111/cgf.12151

摘要

We present an area-preserving parametrization for spherical rectangles which is an analytical function with domain in the unit rectangle [0, 1](2) and range in a region included in the unit-radius sphere. The parametrization preserves areas up to a constant factor and is thus very useful in the context of rendering as it allows to map random sample point sets in [0, 1](2) onto the spherical rectangle. This allows for easily incorporating stratified, quasi-Monte Carlo or other sampling strategies in algorithms that compute scattering from planar rectangular emitters.

  • 出版日期2013-6