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- Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:23 pm
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: Choosing clamping limit in VPL rendering
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9585
Re: Choosing clamping limit in VPL rendering
Glossy is one thing and should be treated with care but I'm not sure bidirectional is more efficient otherwise. Would be interesting to see some statistics.
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:23 am
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: Choosing clamping limit in VPL rendering
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9585
Re: Choosing clamping limit in VPL rendering
Or don't clamp:
Illumination in the Presence of Weak Singularities
with Alexander Keller
Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2004
But it of course depends on how you render your vpl, you may not have the option.
Illumination in the Presence of Weak Singularities
with Alexander Keller
Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2004
But it of course depends on how you render your vpl, you may not have the option.
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: Visuals, Tools, Demos & Sources
- Topic: WebGL path tracer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10231
Re: WebGL path tracer
Ray marching is merely another kind of intersection method, usually used for different kinds of volumetric functions and data, for example distance field iso-surfaces, smoke etc.
- Thu Jan 09, 2014 10:06 pm
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: Population Monte Carlo Sampling
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11382
Re: Population Monte Carlo Sampling
My plan is to use global importance maps to seed a MCMC algorithm. That way I can use the efficiency of those importance maps and hopefully in most cases spread the energy of the high contribution paths (generated from paths with low probability), especially if I give them extra high importance.
- Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:05 pm
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: Population Monte Carlo Sampling
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11382
Re: Population Monte Carlo Sampling
PMC is nothing magically, I'd even argue that is nothing new, it's just importance sampling used in a certain way. There is no extra benefit. I've been experimenting a lot with different versions importance sampling, including PMC and I've learned one thing. You have to importance sample ALL the pea...
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: How to do depth of field in Light tracing?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4272
Re: How to do depth of field in Light tracing?
To account for implicit paths you also need to intersect with the lens geometry.
- Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:56 am
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: A note on PPM/VCM with specrtal rendering and motion blur
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7416
Re: A note on PPM/VCM with specrtal rendering and motion blu
Can't you just turn it into two dimension by randomizing a common time and wavelength for each pass? I thought it was standard practice for sppm class of algorithms. I'm probably missing some important details....
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 5:39 pm
- Forum: Visuals, Tools, Demos & Sources
- Topic: giga rays on intel phi
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27474
Re: giga rays on intel phi
What percentage of the inner loops use double precision? Can you give a rough estimate?
- Thu Aug 08, 2013 8:45 am
- Forum: Visuals, Tools, Demos & Sources
- Topic: LuxVR: Virtual Reality with LuxRender (and OpenCL)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8439
Re: LuxVR: Virtual Reality with LuxRender (and OpenCL)
I would strongly suggest reprojecting pixels under rotation only. It will speed up convergence like crazy when used together with a helmet with lots of small head movements all the time. If you want to be tricky you can focus all the new pixels that comes into view. Will even give a smoother transla...
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:05 am
- Forum: General Development
- Topic: My Reformulation of the Rendering Equation (+Applications)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6202
Re: My Reformulation of the Rendering Equation (+Application
This is going to sound harsh but you removed (N*w) from brdf and made it non symmetric and made Em not measure radiance any more. For me there is no progress there. But it doesn't really matter. However, whatever works for you is ok, as long as you keep track of all the details. It will be harder to...