perspective.cpp

/*
    This file is part of Nori, a simple educational ray tracer
 
    Copyright (c) 2015 by Wenzel Jakob, Romain Prévost
 
    Nori is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 3
    as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
    Nori is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
 
#include <nori/camera.h>
#include <nori/rfilter.h>
#include <nori/warp.h>
#include <Eigen/Geometry>
 
NORI_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
 
class PerspectiveCamera : public Camera {
public:
    PerspectiveCamera(const PropertyList &propList) {
        /* Width and height in pixels. Default: 720p */
        m_outputSize.x() = propList.getInteger("width", 1280);
        m_outputSize.y() = propList.getInteger("height", 720);
        m_invOutputSize = m_outputSize.cast<float>().cwiseInverse();
 
        /* Specifies an optional camera-to-world transformation. Default: none */
        m_cameraToWorld = propList.getTransform("toWorld", Transform());
 
        /* Horizontal field of view in degrees */
        m_fov = propList.getFloat("fov", 30.0f);
 
        /* Near and far clipping planes in world-space units */
        m_nearClip = propList.getFloat("nearClip", 1e-4f);
        m_farClip = propList.getFloat("farClip", 1e4f);
 
        m_rfilter = NULL;
    }
 
    virtual void activate() override {
        float aspect = m_outputSize.x() / (float) m_outputSize.y();
 
        /* Project vectors in camera space onto a plane at z=1:
         *
         *  xProj = cot * x / z
         *  yProj = cot * y / z
         *  zProj = (far * (z - near)) / (z * (far-near))
         *  The cotangent factor ensures that the field of view is 
         *  mapped to the interval [-1, 1].
         */
        float recip = 1.0f / (m_farClip - m_nearClip),
              cot = 1.0f / std::tan(degToRad(m_fov / 2.0f));
 
        Eigen::Matrix4f perspective;
        perspective <<
            cot, 0,   0,   0,
            0, cot,   0,   0,
            0,   0,   m_farClip * recip, -m_nearClip * m_farClip * recip,
            0,   0,   1,   0;
 
        m_sampleToCamera = Transform( 
            Eigen::DiagonalMatrix<float, 3>(Vector3f(0.5f, -0.5f * aspect, 1.0f)) *
            Eigen::Translation<float, 3>(1.0f, -1.0f/aspect, 0.0f) * perspective).inverse();
 
        /* If no reconstruction filter was assigned, instantiate a Gaussian filter */
        if (!m_rfilter) {
            m_rfilter = static_cast<ReconstructionFilter *>(
                    NoriObjectFactory::createInstance("gaussian", PropertyList()));
            m_rfilter->activate();
        }
    }
 
    Color3f sampleRay(Ray3f &ray,
            const Point2f &samplePosition,
            const Point2f &apertureSample) const {
        /* Compute the corresponding position on the 
           near plane (in local camera space) */
        Point3f nearP = m_sampleToCamera * Point3f(
            samplePosition.x() * m_invOutputSize.x(),
            samplePosition.y() * m_invOutputSize.y(), 0.0f);
 
        /* Turn into a normalized ray direction, and
           adjust the ray interval accordingly */
        Vector3f d = nearP.normalized();
        float invZ = 1.0f / d.z();
 
        ray.o = m_cameraToWorld * Point3f(0, 0, 0);
        ray.d = m_cameraToWorld * d;
        ray.mint = m_nearClip * invZ;
        ray.maxt = m_farClip * invZ;
        ray.update();
 
        return Color3f(1.0f);
    }
 
    virtual void addChild(NoriObject *obj) override {
        switch (obj->getClassType()) {
            case EReconstructionFilter:
                if (m_rfilter)
                    throw NoriException("Camera: tried to register multiple reconstruction filters!");
                m_rfilter = static_cast<ReconstructionFilter *>(obj);
                break;
 
            default:
                throw NoriException("Camera::addChild(<%s>) is not supported!",
                    classTypeName(obj->getClassType()));
        }
    }
 
    virtual std::string toString() const override {
        return tfm::format(
            "PerspectiveCamera[\n"
            "  cameraToWorld = %s,\n"
            "  outputSize = %s,\n"
            "  fov = %f,\n"
            "  clip = [%f, %f],\n"
            "  rfilter = %s\n"
            "]",
            indent(m_cameraToWorld.toString(), 18),
            m_outputSize.toString(),
            m_fov,
            m_nearClip,
            m_farClip,
            indent(m_rfilter->toString())
        );
    }
private:
    Vector2f m_invOutputSize;
    Transform m_sampleToCamera;
    Transform m_cameraToWorld;
    float m_fov;
    float m_nearClip;
    float m_farClip;
};
 
NORI_REGISTER_CLASS(PerspectiveCamera, "perspective");
NORI_NAMESPACE_END