Physically Based Rendering

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• PBR

• Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

  Comprehensive reference on physically based rendering techniques

  • Ray Tracing/Overview
  • Randomness/Monte Carlo
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• Learn OpenGL: Shadow Mapping

  Learn OpenGL's tutorial on physically based rendering

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  • c++
  • GLSL
  
• Physically Based Rendering in Filament

  Google's documentation on the PBR system on their Filament renderer on Android. Best in class documentation about high performance PBR lighting shaders

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• Spectral Rendering series

  Blog post series describes how spectral rendering can be implemented at a relatively low overhead (as compared to RGB rendering) and why that is beneficial

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• The rendering equation

  The classic Kajiya rendering equation paper introduced the "rendering equation" and the path tracing algorithm

  • Ray Tracing/Path Tracing
  • Randomness/Monte Carlo
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  • classic
  
• Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation

  the Academy Award-winning Ph.D. thesis by Eric Veach. It starts from bidirectional light transport algorithms and introduces multiple importance sampling and Metropolis light transport

  • Ray Tracing/Path Tracing
  • Randomness/Monte Carlo
  • Randomness/Variance Reduction/Importance Sampling
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  • classic
  
• Advanced Global Illumination

  An advanced book focused on light transport theory for global illumination.

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• Basics of physically-based rendering (Siggraph 2012)

  This tutorial will cover the basics of physically-based rendering such as reflection models (BRDF), volume scattering (phase functions), optical phenomena (dispersion and polarization)

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• Crash Course in BRDF Implementation (2021)

  This article helps to understand and implement BRDFs commonly used in game engines, for use in both rasterization and emerging realtime raytracing

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• Deriving Lambertian BRDF from first principles

  A derivation of the Lambertian BRDF from first principles using calculus

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• Physically Based Shading at Disney (2012)

  Disney's influential SIGGRAPH paper on their principled BRDF model.

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• Physically based rendering from first principles

  An interactive article exploring the physical phenomena that create light and the fundamental laws governing its interaction with matter, and gradually introduce models of creating physically realistic renderings

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• Readings on Physically Based Rendering

  A collection of resources related to physically based rendering (last updated in 2018)

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