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Beer's law in dielectric material

I am trying to implement Beer's law according to this page in dielectric material but I am not sure have done it correctly as the image does not suggest so. The formula is: I(s) = I(0) * pow(e, ln(A) …
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Using Monte carlo on Rayleigh scattering

Update I am editing and posting this question in a different way; this time from the point of view of Nishita paper. Sunlight gets scattered at P and attenuated before reaching Pv. Therefore inten …
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How to simulate specular reflection in Light Tracing?

I am implementing light tracing from this website. The right wall on the below image is perfect mirror(specular reflection). Its BRDF returns zero that's why it's been rendered black. But how is it t …
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Efficiently sampling specific surfaces using MIS in path tracing

Apologies for posting two questions in one post, but as they are relevant I kept them in one. Question 1 In the definition of multi sample estimator that Veach has defined, the integrand is the same …
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Picking multiple light sources from a mixture densities

According to Peter Shirely paper, one pdf(probability density function) can be defined for the union of the light sources and pick only one using a random number from this density: $$p(x) = \alpha_1 …
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How Sunlight is added in Bidirectional Path tracing?

How is distant directional light source(like sun) added in BDPT? If this is an indoor scene that gets sunlight through windows, how is this handled in BDPT(other than to consider Sun as a big disc far …
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