The Story of Light! ☀️

The Story of Light! ☀️

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📝 The paper "Unifying points, beams, and paths in volumetric light transport simulation" and its implementation are available here:
- https://cs.dartmouth.edu/~wjarosz/publications/krivanek14upbp.html
- http://www.smallupbp.com/

Eric Veach's thesis with Multiple Importance Sampling is available here:
https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/veach_thesis/

My Light Transport course at the TU Wien is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLujxSBD-JXgnGmsn7gEyN28P1DnRZG7qi

We are hiring! I recommend the topic "Lighting Simulation For Architectural Design":
http://gcd.tuwien.ac.at/?page_id=2404

My educational light transport program and 1D MIS implementation is available here:
https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/gfx/smallpaint/

Wojciech Jarosz's Beams paper is available here:
https://cs.dartmouth.edu/~wjarosz/publications/jarosz11comprehensive.html

Errata:
Wojciech Jarosz is at the Dartmouth College, or simply Dartmouth (not the Dartmouth University). He also started at Disney Research in 2009, a little earlier than I noted. Apologies!

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