Radiant Poisson Disks

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  • Very interesting! It somehow reminds me of stars and planets. I'm actually working on a circle packing program of my own in p5, same basic principle but different application. I really like your idea of changing the diameter of some of the circles. Keep up the good work.

  • The demo, without radiosity, comes with the pixelflow library.

    The src for the sample generator is here: https://github.com/diwi/PixelFlow/blob/master/src/com/thomasdiewald/pixelflow/java/sampling/PoissonDiscSamping2D.java

    It is basically the algorithm described in this paper: Fast Poisson Disk Sampling in Arbitrary Dimensions

    The above packing was very dense, so for the radiosity to generate a nice lighting effect it worked the best to animate the circles to get some empty space.

    I had a similar impression of stars and planets as you mentioned, actually a bit like the arms of a galaxy and pulsating stars or supernovas, anyways, lots of room for imaginations.

  • @T_D - beautiful work. I wasn't familiar with radiosity in 2D as opposed to 3D -- although on reflection I have seen the effect in top-down view video games built on 3D engines. Anyway, I enjoyed reading your post on it: http://thomasdiewald.com/blog/?p=2949

  • T_DT_D
    edited November 2017

    A while back I did a comparison of such a case you mentioned @jeremydouglass, ... top down 3D vs pure 2D GI (Radiosity). It is quite interesting to see how well 2D performs even though there are far less possible light-paths.

    Post: Realtime 2D Radiosity – Comparing to 3D

    Intensities differ a bit due to slightly different global settings and different applications, but the overall light distribution is still quite a good match.

    The 2D version however is magnitues faster and enables to render completely dynamic scenes of any complexity in realtime.

    Image 1: 2D Radiosity

    Image 2: 3D Radiosity, top down

    https://Vimeo.com/227146227

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