[−][src]Module pbrt::integrators

Integrator is an abstract base class that defines the render() method that must be provided by all integrators.

Ambient Occlusion (AO)

Ambient Occlusion is most often calculated by casting rays in every direction from the surface. Rays which reach the background or sky increase the brightness of the surface, whereas a ray which hits any other object contributes no illumination. As a result, points surrounded by a large amount of geometry are rendered dark, whereas points with little geometry on the visible hemisphere appear light.

Ambient Occlusion

Direct Lighting

The DirectLightingIntegrator accounts only for direct lighting — light that has traveled directly from a light source to the point being shaded — and ignores indirect illumination from objects that are not themselfes emissive, except for basic specular reflection and transmission effects.

Direct Lighting

Path Tracing

Path tracing incrementally generates paths of scattering events starting at the camera and ending at light sources in the scene.

Path Tracing

Bidirectional Path Tracing (BDPT)

Bidirectional path tracing is a generalization of the standard pathtracing algorithm that can be much more efficient. It constructs paths that start from the camera on one end, from the light on the other end, and connects in the middle with a visibility ray.

Bidirectional Path Tracing

Modules

ao
bdpt
directlighting
mlt
path

Functions

render

Main function to render a scene mutli-threaded (using all available cores).