Rendering Competition 2015

This image was my entry for the rendering competition of the Computer Graphics course at ETHZ in 2015. It won 1st place. The renderer was written in C++11 on top of the Nori framework and implements the following features:

• Unidirectional Path Tracing
• Various camera models (pinhole, thin lens, realistic camera model based on spherical elements)
• Various BSDFs (diffuse, rough diffuse, conductor, rough conductor, dielectric, blending)
• Disney BRDF for complex materials
• Various light sources (point, area, distant disk, environment maps)
• Texture and bump mapping
• Volumetric path tracing for both homogeneous and heterogeneous media
• Volumetric light emitters (black body emission)
• Sobol sampling
• Adaptive sampling
• Basic denoising

For more information please see the project report.