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Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model

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Eric Heitz and his colleagues published one hell of a paper on rendering microfacet materials. It has lots of beautifully written mathematics, and is really well illustrated, evaluated, and the full source code is also published. Now it comes with a narrated supplementary video. The paper is available here (or click the image below), check it out!

Status: accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2016

(please note that I am in the acknowledgements section and was not a co-author of the paper, I just helped with the video. Happy to have been a very small part of this!)

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Two Minute Papers – Manipulating Photorealistic Renderings

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Photorealistic rendering (also called global illumination) enables us to see how digital objects would look like in real life. It is an amazingly powerful tool in the hands of a professional artist, who can create breathtaking images or animations with. However, for the longest time, artists didn’t use it in the movie industry because it did not offer a great artistic freedom – after all, it works according to the laws of physics, which are exact. This piece of work enables us to apply artistic edits to photorealistic renderings easily and intuitively. I believe this one has the potential to single-handedly change the landscape of photorealistic rendering on a production scale.

Automated Lighting Design For Photorealistic Rendering

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Silvana Podaras, my Bachelor student had her paper accepted to CESCG 2014! It is implemented as a LuxRender module and is available here. Be sure to read the attached readme. Congratulations! 🙂

We’re continuing this work, so if you decided to pick this up and improve it in any way, let us know!

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