There are many materials in the world that we’d like to model in our program: mirrors, walls, car paint and so on. How do we characterize these different material properties mathematically? We use BRDFs (Bidirectional reflectance distribution functions) as a vehicle to accomplish this, and also discuss how to use it to formulate the holy grail of computer graphics, the rendering equation, the most fundamental equation of light transport.<\/p>\n
About the course:
\nThis course aims to give an overview of basic and state-of-the-art methods of rendering. Offline methods such as ray and path tracing, photon mapping and many other algorithms are introduced and various refinement are explained. <\/p>\n
The basics of the involved physics, such as geometric optics, surface and media interaction with light and camera models are outlined. <\/p>\n
The apparatus of Monte Carlo methods is introduced which is heavily used in several algorithms and its refinement in the form of stratified sampling and the Metropolis-Hastings method is explained. <\/p>\n
At the end of the course students should be familiar with common techniques in rendering and find their way around the current state-of-the-art of the field. Furthermore the exercises should deepen the attendees’ understanding of the basic principles of light transport and enable them to write a simple rendering program themselves.<\/p>\n
These videos are the recordings of the lectures of 2015 at the Teschnische Universit\u00e4t Wien by K\u00e1roly Zsolnai and Thomas Auzinger<\/p>\n
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