Rendering Competition 2014

This image was my entry for the rendering competition of the “Image Synthesis” course at ETHZ in 2014. It won 2nd place. The renderer was written in C++ from scratch and implements the following features:

• GUI for scene editing and tweaking
• Unidirectional Path Tracing
• Various camera models (pinhole, thin lens)
• Various BSDFs (diffuse, phong, rough diffuse, conductor, rough conductor, dielectric, rough dielectric, plastic, diffuse transmission, blending)
• Various light sources (point, area, environment maps)
• Texture and bump mapping (bitmap and procedural noise based textures)
• Volumetric path tracing for both homogeneous and heterogeneous media

For more information please see the project report.