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:20240214T070245Z LOCATION:Meeting Room C4.8\, Level 4 (Convention Centre) DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231213T161000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20231213T162500 UID:siggraphasia_SIGGRAPH Asia 2023_sess145_papers_315@linklings.com SUMMARY:Efficient Visualization of Light Pollution for the Night Sky DESCRIPTION:Technical Papers\n\nYoshinori Dobashi and Naoto Ishikawa (Hokk aido University, Prometech CG Research) and Kei Iwasaki (Saitama Universit y, Prometech CG Research)\n\nThe artificial light sources make our daily l ife convenient, but they cause a serious problem called light pollution. \ nWe propose a system for efficient visualization of the light pollution fo r the night sky.\nA number of methods have been proposed for rendering the sky, but most of the methods focus on the rendering of the daytime or the sunset sky where the sun is the only light source.\nFor the visualization of the light pollution, however, we have to take into account many city l ight sources on the ground, resulting in expensive computational cost.\nWe address this problem by precomputing a set of intensity distributions of the sky illuminated by a city light for different locations and atmospheri c conditions.\nWe apply the principal component analysis and the fast Four ier transform to the precomputed distributions, allowing us to efficiently visualize the light pollution.\nWe achieve one to two orders of magnitude s faster computation compared to a naive approach that accumulates the sca ttered intensity for each viewing ray. \nThis fast computation further all ows us to interactively solve an inverse problem that determines the city light intensity to reduce the light pollution.\nOur system provides the us er with the forward and the inverse investigation tool of the light pollut ion.\n\nRegistration Category: Full Access\n\nSession Chair: Young J. Kim (Ewha Womans University) URL:https://asia.siggraph.org/2023/full-program?id=papers_315&sess=sess145 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR