reflections

references

• recommended
  • Blinn, J. F., & Newell, M. E. (1976). Texture and reflection in computer generated images. Communications of the ACM, 19(10), 542-547. (ncsu)
  • Greene, N. (1986). Environment mapping and other applications of world projections. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 6(11), 21-29. (ncsu)
  • Akenine-Moller, T., Haines, E., & Hoffman, N. (2018). Sections 10.4-10.6 in Real-Time Rendering. AK Peters/CRC Press. (ncsu)
• optional
  • Morgan McGuire. (2014). Screen Space Ray Tracing. On Graphics & Games, Casual Effects, August 9.

demos & tutorials

• WebGL/js
  • Planar reflections from three.js
  • From Eck's online book:
    • Cube map
    • Dynamic cube map
  • Dynamic cube map at webgl samples
  • Reflection mapping
• OpenGL/C++
  • There is a Nehe tutorial on sphere mapping.
  • A D3D tutorial on single pass environment mapping.
  • Nvidia tutorial on the cube mapping extension.
  • GLSL tutorial.
  • OpenGL.org tutorial.
  • Nvidia's CG tutorial.
  • Wolfgang Heidrich's tutorial (inventor of parabolic mapping).
  • Nate Miller's demo.
  • Nehe planar reflection demo.
  • OpenGL.org's planar reflection demo.

movies

• Here is a movie of an environment mapped sphere.

links

• Paul Debevec's light probe image gallery

engine refs

• manual
  • unreal: planar, glossy, ambient
  • unity: cubemap, probe, probes
• video/tutorial
  • unity: reflections