Physically Based Rendering, From Theory To Implementation by Pharr, Matt -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover image Title page Table of Contents Inside Front Cover Copyright Dedication About the Authors Preface

Audience Overview and goals Changes between the first and second editions Changes between the second and third editions Acknowledgments About the cover Additional reading

01: Introduction

1.1 Literate programming 1.2 Photorealistic rendering and the ray-tracing algorithm 1.3 pbrt: System overview 1.4 Parallelization of pbrt 1.5 How to proceed through this book 1.6 Using and understanding the code 1.7 A brief history of physically based rendering Further reading Exercise

02: Geometry and Transformations

2.2 Vectors 2.3 Points 2.4 Normals 2.5 Rays 2.6 Bounding boxes 2.7 Transformations 2.8 Applying transformations 2.9 *Animating transformations 2.10 Interactions Further reading Exercises

03: Shapes

3.1 Basic shape interface 3.2 Spheres 3.3 Cylinders 3.4 Disks 3.5 Other quadrics 3.6 Triangle meshes * 3.7 Curves *3.8 Subdivision surfaces * 3.9 Managing rounding error Further reading Exercises

04: Primitives and Intersection Acceleration

4.1 Primitive interface and geometric primitives 4.2 Aggregates 4.3 Bounding volume hierarchies 4.4 Kd-tree accelerator Further reading Exercises

05: Color and Radiometry

5.1 Spectral representation 5.2 The sampledSpectrum class 5.3 RGBSpectrum implementation 5.4 Radiometry 5.5 Working with radiometric integrals 5.6 Surface reflection Further reading Exercises

06: Camera Models

6.1 Camera model 6.2 Projective camera models 6.3 Environment camera *6.4 Realistic cameras Further reading Exercises

07: Sampling and Reconstruction

7.1 Sampling theory 7.2 Sampling interface 7.3 Stratified sampling * 7.4 The halton sampler * 7.5 (0, 2)-Sequence sampler * 7.6 Maximized minimal distance sampler * 7.7 Sobol’ sampler 7.8 Image reconstruction 7.9 Film and the imaging pipeline FURTHER READING Exercises

08: Reflection Models

8.1 Basic interface 8.2 Specular reflection and transmission 8.3 Lambertian reflection 8.4 Microfacet models 8.5 Fresnel incidence effects 8.6 Fourier basis BSDFs 8.6.1 Spline interpolation Further reading Exercises

09: Materials

9.1 BSDFs 9.2 Material interface and implementations 9.3 Bump mapping Further reading Exercises

10: Texture

10.1 Sampling and antialiasing 10.2 Texture coordinate generation 10.3 Texture interface and basic textures 10.4 Image texture 10.5 Solid and procedural texturing 10.6 Noise Further reading Exercises

11: Volume Scattering

11.1 Volume scattering processes 11.2 Phase functions 11.3 Media 11.4 The bssrdf Further reading Exercises

12: Light Sources

12.1 Light emission 12.2 Light interface 12.3 Point lights 12.4 Distant lights 12.5 Area lights 12.6 Infinite area lights Further reading Exercises

13: Monte Carlo Integration

13.1 Background and probability review 13.2 The monte carlo estimator 13.3 Sampling random variables *13.4 Metropolis sampling 13.5 Transforming between distributions 13.6 2D Sampling with multidimensional transformations 13.7 Russian roulette and splitting 13.8 Careful sample placement 13.9 Bias 13.10 Importance sampling Further reading Exercises

14: Light Transport I: Surface Reflection

14.1 Sampling reflection functions 14.2 Sampling light sources 14.3 Direct lighting 14.4 The light transport equation 14.5 Path tracing Further reading Exercises

15: Light Transport II: Volume Rendering

15.1 The equation of transfer 15.2 Sampling volume scattering 15.3 Volumetric light transport *15.4 Sampling subsurface reflection functions *15.5 Subsurface scattering using the diffusion equation Further reading Exercises

*16: Light Transport III: Bidirectional Methods

16.1 The path-space measurement equation 16.2 Stochastic progressive photon mapping 16.3 Bidirectional path tracing 16.4 Metropolis light transport Further reading Exercises

17: Retrospective and the Future

17.1 Design retrospective 17.2 Alternative hardware architectures 17.3 Conclusion

A: Utilities

A.1 Main include file A.2 Image file input and output A.3 Communicating with the user A.4 Memory management A.5 Mathematical routines A.6 Parallelism A.7 Statistics Further reading Exercises

B: Scene Description Interface

B.1 Parameter sets B.2 Initialization and rendering options B.3 Scene definition B.4 Adding new object implementations Further reading Exercises

C: Index of Fragments D: Index of Classes and their Members E: Index of Miscellaneous Identifiers References Subject Index Physically Based Rendering

From Theory to Implementation

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