50YearsOfRayTracing
以历史的发展的眼光来看光线追踪技术，1968年至2018年重点论文相关算法复现。
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[WIP] 50 Years of Ray Tracing
19682018
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- CPU /
- C++
- RTKit
- 1.0 repo
- 2.0 Intel Embree
| Ray Casting | 1968.Appel | Arthur Appel | Some techniques for shading machine renderings of solids |
| Recursive Ray Tracing | 1979.Whitted | Turner Whitted | An improved illumination model for shaded display |
| Distributed Ray Tracing | 1984.Cook | Robert Cook et al. | Distributed ray tracing |
| Path Tracing | 1986.Kajiya | James Kajiya | The rendering equation |
| Bidirectional Light Transport | 1994.Veach.BDPT | Eric Veach | Bidirectional Estimators for Light Transport |
| Analytic Direct Lighting | 1995.Arvo | James Richard Arvo | Analytic Methods for Simulated Light Transport |
| Multiple Importance Sampling | 1995.Veach.MIS | Eric Veach et al. | Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering |
| Photon Mapping | 1996.Henrik | Henrik Wann Jensen | Global Illumination using Photon Maps |
| Monte Carlo Direct Lighting | 1996.Shirley | Peter Shirley et al. | Monte Carlo Techniques for Direct Lighting Calculations |
| Metropolis Light Transport | 1997.Vaech.MLT | Eric Veach & Leonidas Guibas | Metropolis Light Transport |
- vcpkg
- VSCode
Ray Casting - Arthur Appel, 1968
- Resolve visibility & depth
- Lambertian shading
- Sharp shadow
Recursive Ray Tracing - Turner Whitted, 1980
- BlinnPhong shading
- Reflection
- Refraction
Distributed Ray Tracing - Robert Cook et al., 1984
- Soft shadow
- Depth of field
- Glossy reflection
- Motion blur
Path Tracing - James Kajiya, 1986
- Monte Carlo Direct lighting
- Indirect lighting with Russian Roulette termination
- Next Event Estimation
Analytic Direct Lighting - Arvo 1995
Multiple Importance Sampling - Eric Veach et al., 1995
- TODO
- Phong Importance Sampling
- Distant Environment Lighting
- Importance Sampling GGX
My Ray Tracing Kit
- Cross platform: MacOS, Windows 10
- Multi-threaded rendering
RTKit1
- Scene object instancing
- Triangle mesh with BVH
RTKit2
- Towards Physically-based Rendering
- Embree for intersection