#photonmapping — Public Fediverse posts
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#BLOG day! This week, we’ll take a look at how to render caustics using photon mapping.
Proposed by Henrik Wann Jensen in 1996, photon mapping is a global illumination algorithm that shoots out photons at light sources and store their scene interaction information in something called a “photon map”, to be reused later in the calculation of indirect lighting.
Please check out the blog post if you are interested! https://blog.42yeah.is/rendering/2023/05/13/photon-mapping.html