ambient_occlusion — 3D render op

Data kinds: meshimage2d

Call: import render_ao; render_ao.ambient_occlusion(V, F, pose=None, intrinsics=None, width: 'int' = 256, height: 'int' = 256, n_dirs: 'int' = 64, max_dist: 'float | None' = None, k: 'int' = 3, background: 'float' = 1.0, method: 'str' = 'auto') -> 'np.ndarray' (or ops3d.get("ambient_occlusion"))

Usage

Render the mesh into an AO map image `(H, W)` in [0,1].

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

render_aopy -3.11 examples_3d/render_ao.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept image2d as input)

fuse_to_voxel · fit_poly_surface · eval_poly_surface · surface_form_error · background_flatten · polar_unwrap · fit_zernike · matcap_shade

Same category (render)

project_points · render_point_depth · render_volume_projection · render_shaded · cast_shadow · phong_shade · matcap_shade · supersample_mesh


*Provenance: render_ao.py — 3D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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