I was reading this excellent and instructive paper -- actually, it's a thick
book! -- about raytracing and photon mapping by a Pixar guy and photon mapping
father Henrik Wann Jensen:
http://graphics.pixar.com/HQRenderingCourse/paper.pdf
it's from august 2007 and is still pretty fresh. Great reading...
that URL BTW is full of enrichning CG goodies...
> I was reading this excellent and instructive paper -- actually, it's a > thick> book! -- about raytracing and photon mapping by a Pixar guy and photon > mapping> father Henrik Wann Jensen:>> http://graphics.pixar.com/HQRenderingCourse/paper.pdf>> it's from august 2007 and is still pretty fresh. Great reading...>> that URL BTW is full of enrichning CG goodies...
Yeh, those papers make photorealistic rendering look so easy :-)
"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> > I was reading this excellent and instructive paper -- actually, it's a> > thick> > book! -- about raytracing and photon mapping by a Pixar guy and photon> > mapping> > father Henrik Wann Jensen:> >> > http://graphics.pixar.com/HQRenderingCourse/paper.pdf> >> > it's from august 2007 and is still pretty fresh. Great reading...> >> > that URL BTW is full of enrichning CG goodies...>> Yeh, those papers make photorealistic rendering look so easy :-)
indeed! Now I feel positively confident in helping out with povray coding! :P
nemesis wrote:
> I was reading this excellent and instructive paper -- actually, it's a thick> book! -- about raytracing and photon mapping by a Pixar guy and photon mapping> father Henrik Wann Jensen:> > http://graphics.pixar.com/HQRenderingCourse/paper.pdf> > it's from august 2007 and is still pretty fresh. Great reading...> > that URL BTW is full of enrichning CG goodies...
I would like the folks working on V4 to read many of the papers there.
Some of it won't work well for POV-Ray, but some of it will.
Regards,
John
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: old news?
Date: 24 Jan 2008 09:39:58
Message: <4798a33e@news.povray.org>
> I would like the folks working on V4 to read many of the papers there. > Some of it won't work well for POV-Ray, but some of it will.>
Maybe you could make a wiki page with links to the papers.