BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:19721003T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=4;BYDAY=1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19721003T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260114T163633Z LOCATION:Darling Harbour Theatre\, Level 2 (Convention Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231212T124500 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess209_papers_315@linklings.com SUMMARY:Efficient Visualization of Light Pollution for the Night Sky DESCRIPTION:Yoshinori Dobashi and Naoto Ishikawa (Hokkaido University, Pro metech CG Research) and Kei Iwasaki (Saitama University, Prometech CG Rese arch)\n\nThe artificial light sources make our daily life convenient, but they cause a serious problem called light pollution. \nWe propose a system for efficient visualization of the light pollution for the night sky.\nA number of methods have been proposed for rendering the sky, but most of th e methods focus on the rendering of the daytime or the sunset sky where th e sun is the only light source.\nFor the visualization of the light pollut ion, however, we have to take into account many city light sources on the ground, resulting in expensive computational cost.\nWe address this proble m by precomputing a set of intensity distributions of the sky illuminated by a city light for different locations and atmospheric conditions.\nWe ap ply the principal component analysis and the fast Fourier transform to the precomputed distributions, allowing us to efficiently visualize the light pollution.\nWe achieve one to two orders of magnitudes faster computation compared to a naive approach that accumulates the scattered intensity for each viewing ray. \nThis fast computation further allows us to interactiv ely solve an inverse problem that determines the city light intensity to r educe the light pollution.\nOur system provides the user with the forward and the inverse investigation tool of the light pollution.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access, Enhanced Access, Trade Exhibitor, Experience Hall Exhibitor\n\n URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=papers_315&sess=sess209 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR