Path Tracing; IBL

by Peter on Oct.13, 2006, under Programming, Tong Raytracer

After seeing a colleagues path tracer I decided last night to have a crack at it myself. Unfortunately I’ve (deliberately*) lost my copy of Max, so I couldn’t set up any decent shots with all the effects that I would like. Expect images of effects such as caustics later, but in the meantime here’s path tracing with IBL:

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The JPEG compression has mucked about with that image a bit, annoyingly. More coming as soon as I find my copy of Max and also when stuff finishes rendering. Path tracing is soooooo sloooooooow.

* I hate Max. I never expected to ever need to use it again.