Volume Caustics

[konstantin magnus]

I sampled refraction curves into a volume using SOPs and used the resulting density as emission inside a volume shader. 

Is there any way to realize volume caustics fully inside a material shader (either Mantra or Karma)?

volume_refraction.hipnc

[Librarian]

I didn't see this Topic  interesting
@konstantin magnus
https://github.com/miloyip/light2d
 

Edited November 2, 2020 by Librarian

[konstantin magnus]

Thank you Tesan! 

I've just translated the first example from C to VEX for a volume wrangle.

// Use Monte Carlo integration and ray marching
// of signed distance field (SDF) to render emissive circles.
// Source: https://github.com/miloyip/light2d/blob/master/basic.c

int samples = chi('samples');

function float sd_circle(vector2 uv, pos; float radius){
    float dist = distance(uv, pos) - radius;
    return dist;
}

function float sd_scene(vector2 uv){
    float d_0 = sd_circle(uv, {0.3, 0.18}, 0.12);
    float d_1 = sd_circle(uv, {0.25, 0.18}, 0.12);
    float d_2 = sd_circle(uv, {-0.3, -0.2}, 0.02);
    float dist = min( max(d_0, -d_1), d_2);
    return max(dist);
}

function float trace(vector2 uv, dist){
    float t = 0.0;
    for(int i = 0; i < 100 && t < 2.0; i++){
        float sd = sd_scene(uv + dist * t);
        if(sd < 1e-5) return 1.5;
        t += sd;
    }
    return 0.0;
}

function float sample(vector2 uv; int samples){
    float sum = 0.0;
    for(int i = 0; i < samples; i++){
        float a = 2.0 * PI * ((rand(uv) + i) / float(samples));
        sum += trace(uv, set(cos(a), sin(a)));
    }
    return sum / float(samples); 
}

vector2 uv = set(v@P.x, v@P.y);

f@d = sample(uv, samples);

 

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