Table of Contents

General Resources

• Equation: Quantifying Light = Great 3-D Animation @WIRED
• The State of Rendering @fxguide. Part1, Part2.
  • Comprehensive introduction for current state of rendering research.
• ompf2
  • Wonderful forum about ray tracing implementation and researching.

GI in Production

Great materials for artists, TDs and R&D engineers.

• The Comprehensive PBR Guide Vol 1 & 2, from allegorithmic.
• Global Illumination Across Industries. SIG'10.
• Raytracers and workflow: a production perspective. SIG'14.
• The Quest for the Ray Tracing API. SIG'16.
• Path Tracing in Production. SIG'17.

Textbooks

• Physically Based Rendering 3/e. Matt Pharr, Wenzel Jakob and Greg Humphreys.
• Advanced Global Illumination. Philip Dutre, Kavita Bala and Phillips Bekaert.
• Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping. Henrik Wann Jensen.

Physically-Based Shading

• Practical Physically Based Shading in Film and Game Production: SIG'10, SIG'12
• Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice: SIG'13, SIG'14, SIG'15, SIG'16, SIG'17

Light Transport

• Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation. Eric Veach. 1997.
• Optimizing Realistic Rendering with Many-Light Methods. SIG'12.
• Ray Tracing is the Future and ever will be. SIG'13.
• Recent Advances in Light Transport Simulation: Theory & Practice. SIG'13.
• Recent Advances in Light Transport Simulation: Some Theory and a Lot of Practice. SIG'14.
• Path Integral Methods for Light Transport Simulation: Theory & Practice. EG'14.

Monte Carlo Sampling & Analysis

• Monte Carlo Ray Tracing. SIG'03.
• Frequency Analysis of Light Transport. SIG'16.
• Fourier Analysis of Numerical Integration in Monte Carlo Rendering: Theory and Practice. SIG'16.
• Blue-noise Dithered Sampling. SIG'16.
• Area-Preserving Parameterizations for Spherical Ellipses. EGSR'17.

Importance Sampling

• Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation, Ch 2, 9. Eric Veach. 1997.
• IS for Production Rendering. SIG'10.
• Importance Sampling of Area Lights in Participating Media. SIG'11 Talks.
• BSSRDF Importance Sampling. SIG'13 Talks.

Photon Mapping

• Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping. Henrik Wann Jensen.
• State of the Art in Photon Density Estimation. SIG'12.

Volume Rendering

• Importance Sampling Techniques for Path Tracing in Participating Media. EGSR'12.
• Production Volume Rendering: SIG'11, SIG'17.

Programming

Learning from coding!

• PBRT v3
• Mitsuba
• Nori 2
• Tungsten

Ray Tracing Engines

• OptiX from NVidia
• Embree from Intel

Data Structure & Algorithms

• Efficient Sorting and Searching in Rendering Algorithms, EG'14.