University of Pennsylvania, CIS 565: GPU Programming and Architecture, Project 4
- Sydney Miller
- Tested on: GTX 222 222MB (CETS Virtual Lab)
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1 Iteration | 3 Iterations | 7 Iterations | 10 Iterations |
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Looking at these images, it took about 7 iterations to get a smooth image. With the iterations less than 7, there are some artifacts around the specular sphere.
Specular | Diffuse | Refractive |
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The render with diffuse walls and specular sphere looks the best. The surface of the diffuse sphere has some artifcats. The refractive sphere does not look refractive anymore. With different parameters maybe the other materials on the sphere would look better. The paramters used here were: Filter Size: 156, Color Weight: 3.5, Normal Weight: 0.005, and Position Weight: 0.2.
10 x 10 px | 25 x 25 px | 50 x 50 px | 100 x 100 px |
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You can see that lower filter sizes make for a more noticible grid patter in the image.
Large Light | Small Light |
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With the same parameters, the scene with the smaller light has a siginifcant lower quality than the scene with the larger light. Maybe the brighter scenes looks better because there is less darker pixels after each iteration since there is a higher probability of rays reaching the light. The paramters used here were: Filter Size: 156, Color Weight: 3.5, Normal Weight: 0.005, and Position Weight: 0.2.
This graph shows that for each tested resolution, the average iteration runtime in ms is greater for the denoised image than the noisy image. These results match my hypothesis that the runtime would increase with a greater resolution because there are more pixels in images that have a greater resolution. This means that there are more pixels to run the denoise algorithm on at every iteration.
This chart shows that the average runtime per iteration increases with increasing filter sizes, however the runtime increase is smaller as the filter goes up. The increase in runtime is still significant though. This result also matches my hypothesis because greater filter sizes mean more iterations of the denoise algorithm per pixel. It also makes sense that the runtime increase is less as the filter size increases because every iteration multiples the step size by two, so the step size grows larger between each iteration at larger filter sizess. Thi means there is a lower increase in iterations between larger filter sizes.