[pt] A visualização volumétrica é uma técnica amplamente utilizada para visualizar dados escalares tridimensionais. Para melhorar a percepção de profundidade e forma, diversas técnicas de iluminação foram propostas, adicionando diferentes tipos de efeitos. Neste trabalho, foi explorada uma nova estratégia para calcular oclusão de ambiente direcional e sombras para volume ray casting. Ela consiste em avaliar a oclusão de um traçado de cone atraves de integrais Gaussianas posicionadas de maneira discreta ao longo do eixo do cone. O valor resultado é utilizado para adicionar oclusão de ambiente direcional e sombras. A partir dos coeficientes de extinção dados pela função de transferência, um volume extra é gerado computando amplitudes representativas de distribuições Gaussianas. O Mipmapping também é utilizado para avaliar de maneira efetiva integrais Gaussianas em diferentes tamanhos posicionadas ao longo do eixo principal do cone, adaptando uma estratégia de circle packing in a circle. Nos resultados, é demonstrado que o método proposto obteve um melhor balanço entre performance e qualidade, comparado com trabalhos propostos anteriormente, com a vantagem de combinar oclusão de ambiente direcional e sombras utilizando o mesmo framework. Em seguida, exploramos três estratégias de visualização volumétrica para reservatórios de petróleo, representados por malhas irregulares contendo distorções geométricas e descontinuidades. Estes algoritmos foram implementados a partir de uma representação compacta que guarda o modelo em GPU. Testes comparativos de performance e qualidade foram feitos utilizando diferentes modelos de reservatório. Por fim, investigamos o ganho de percepção ao adicionar a nossa proposta de oclusão de ambiente direcional. Os algoritmos foram todos implementados utilizando programação de shaders para capacitar a geração de visualizações interativas. / [en] Volume rendering is a widely used technique to visualize 3D scalar data. To enhance visual shape and depth perception, distinct illumination techniques have been proposed, adding different types of lighting effects. In this thesis, we explore a new strategy to compute directional ambient occlusion and shadows for volume ray casting. Our algorithm computes occlusion of traced cones by evaluating Gaussian integrals at discrete samples along the cone axis. The computed occlusion is then used to add directional ambient occlusion effects and to generate shadows. Given the extinction coefficient data volume, we create one extra volume computing representative amplitudes of Gaussian functions. Mipmapping is then used to effectively evaluate Gaussian integrals with different sizes placed along the cone axis, adapting a circle packing approach. We demonstrate that the proposed method delivers a better balance between quality results and performance when compared to previous specialized procedures, with the advantage of combining directional ambient occlusion and shadow generation under the same framework. We also explore three volume rendering algorithms for black oil reservoir models, represented by irregular hexahedral meshes with geometry distortions and discontinuities. These algorithms were implemented under a compact representation that stores the model in the GPU. We compare performance and image quality delivered by each strategy by running a set of experiments with different models. We then investigate the gain in perception when applying our technique to compute directional ambient occlusion effects. The algorithms were entirely implemented on graphics card to produce interactive visualizations.

With the rapidly growing computational power of modern computers, physically based rendering has found its way into real world applications. Real-time simulations and renderings of fire and smoke had become one major research interest in modern video game industry, and will continue being one important research direction in computer graphics. To visually recreate realistic dynamic fire and smoke is a complicated problem. Furthermore, to solve the problem requires knowledge from various areas, ranged from computer graphics and image processing to computational physics and chemistry. Even though most of the areas are well-studied separately, when combined, new challenges will emerge. This thesis focuses on three aspects of the problem, dynamic, real-time and realism, to propose a solution in form of a GPGPU pipeline, along with its implementation. Three main areas with application in the problem are discussed in detail: fluid simulation, volumetric radiance estimation and volumetric rendering. The weights are laid upon the first two areas. The results are evaluated around the three aspects, with graphical demonstrations and performance measurements. Uniform grids are used with Finite Difference (FD) discretization scheme to simplify the computation. FD schemes are easy to implement in parallel, especially with ComputeShader, which is well supported in Unity engine. The whole implementation can easily be integrated into any real-world applications in Unity or other game engines that support DirectX 11 or higher.