Contents

• Preface
• Further Reading
• Preface to the Online Edition
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Literate Programming
• 1.2 Photorealistic Rendering and the Ray-Tracing Algorithm
• 1.3 pbrt: System Overview
• 1.4 Parallelization of pbrt
• 1.5 How to Proceed through This Book
• 1.6 Using and Understanding the Code
• 1.7 A Brief History of Physically Based Rendering
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 2 Geometry and Transformations
• 2.1 Coordinate Systems
• 2.2 Vectors
• 2.3 Points
• 2.4 Normals
• 2.5 Rays
• 2.6 Bounding Boxes
• 2.7 Transformations
• 2.8 Applying Transformations
• 2.9 Animating Transformations
• 2.10 Interactions
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 3 Shapes
• 3.1 Basic Shape Interface
• 3.2 Spheres
• 3.3 Cylinders
• 3.4 Disks
• 3.5 Other Quadrics
• 3.6 Triangle Meshes
• 3.7 Curves
• 3.8 Subdivision Surfaces
• 3.9 Managing Rounding Error
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 4 Primitives and Intersection Acceleration
• 4.1 Primitive Interface and Geometric Primitives
• 4.2 Aggregates
• 4.3 Bounding Volume Hierarchies
• 4.4 Kd-Tree Accelerator
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 5 Color and Radiometry
• 5.1 Spectral Representation
• 5.2 The SampledSpectrum Class
• 5.3 RGBSpectrum Implementation
• 5.4 Radiometry
• 5.5 Working with Radiometric Integrals
• 5.6 Surface Reflection
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 6 Camera Models
• 6.1 Camera Model
• 6.2 Projective Camera Models
• 6.3 Environment Camera
• 6.4 Realistic Cameras
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 7 Sampling and Reconstruction
• 7.1 Sampling Theory
• 7.2 Sampling Interface
• 7.3 Stratified Sampling
• 7.4 The Halton Sampler
• 7.5 (0, 2)-Sequence Sampler
• 7.6 Maximized Minimal Distance Sampler
• 7.7 Sobol’ Sampler
• 7.8 Image Reconstruction
• 7.9 Film and the Imaging Pipeline
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 8 Reflection Models
• 8.1 Basic Interface
• 8.2 Specular Reflection and Transmission
• 8.3 Lambertian Reflection
• 8.4 Microfacet Models
• 8.5 Fresnel Incidence Effects
• 8.6 Fourier Basis BSDFs
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 9 Materials
• 9.1 BSDFs
• 9.2 Material Interface and Implementations
• 9.3 Bump Mapping
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 10 Texture
• 10.1 Sampling and Antialiasing
• 10.2 Texture Coordinate Generation
• 10.3 Texture Interface and Basic Textures
• 10.4 Image Texture
• 10.5 Solid and Procedural Texturing
• 10.6 Noise
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 11 Volume Scattering
• 11.1 Volume Scattering Processes
• 11.2 Phase Functions
• 11.3 Media
• 11.4 The BSSRDF
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 12 Light Sources
• 12.1 Light Emission
• 12.2 Light Interface
• 12.3 Point Lights
• 12.4 Distant Lights
• 12.5 Area Lights
• 12.6 Infinite Area Lights
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 13 Monte Carlo Integration
• 13.1 Background and Probability Review
• 13.2 The Monte Carlo Estimator
• 13.3 Sampling Random Variables
• 13.4 Metropolis Sampling
• 13.5 Transforming between Distributions
• 13.6 2D Sampling with Multidimensional Transformations
• 13.7 Russian Roulette and Splitting
• 13.8 Careful Sample Placement
• 13.9 Bias
• 13.10 Importance Sampling
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 14 Light Transport I: Surface Reflection
• 14.1 Sampling Reflection Functions
• 14.2 Sampling Light Sources
• 14.3 Direct Lighting
• 14.4 The Light Transport Equation
• 14.5 Path Tracing
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 15 Light Transport II: Volume Rendering
• 15.1 The Equation of Transfer
• 15.2 Sampling Volume Scattering
• 15.3 Volumetric Light Transport
• 15.4 Sampling Subsurface Reflection Functions
• 15.5 Subsurface Scattering Using the Diffusion Equation
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 16 Light Transport III: Bidirectional Methods
• 16.1 The Path-Space Measurement Equation
• 16.2 Stochastic Progressive Photon Mapping
• 16.3 Bidirectional Path Tracing
• 16.4 Metropolis Light Transport
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• 17 Retrospective and The Future
• 17.1 Design Retrospective
• 17.2 Alternative Hardware Architectures
• 17.3 Conclusion
• Further Reading
• A Utilities
• A.1 Main Include File
• A.2 Image File Input and Output
• A.3 Communicating with the User
• A.4 Memory Management
• A.5 Mathematical Routines
• A.6 Parallelism
• A.7 Statistics
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• B Scene Description Interface
• B.1 Parameter Sets
• B.2 Initialization and Rendering Options
• B.3 Scene Definition
• B.4 Adding New Object Implementations
• Further Reading
• Exercises
• References
• Index of Fragments
• Index of Identifiers