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For questions about the path tracing Monte Carlo algorithm for physically accurate global illumination, or its variants.

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Caustics: methods to render?

First of all, you can get caustics just by Path Tracing. Caustics isn't a difficult phenomenon in computer graphics. Almost any global illumination algorithm can render it. It's just a matter of the c …
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Algorithms to Remove High Frequency Noise from Path Tracing

I have been working on my own renderer for a while, and I'm wondering if there's any way to remove the Monte Carlo noise from the rendered image, besides waiting for a long time for it to converge? T …
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How to properly implement Phong material and importance sample it in a path tracer?

I'm recently implementing Phong materials in my path tracer. My implementation of a randomly sampled Phong material works and looks fine. But it doesn't work well if the shininess(aka power) is too hi …
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