Pixar's RenderMan renderer is used to render all of Pixar's films and by many film studios to
render visual effects for live-action movies. RenderMan started as a scanline renderer based …

The Manuka rendering architecture has been designed in the spirit of the classic reyes
rendering architecture: to enable the creation of visually rich computer generated imagery …

Arnold is a physically based renderer for feature-length animation and visual effects.
Conceived in an era of complex multi-pass rasterization-based workflows struggling to keep …

Web technologies provide the basis to distribute digital information worldwide and in
realtime but they have also established the Web as a ubiquitous application platform. The …

Sony Imageworks' implementation of the Arnold renderer is a fork of the commercial product
of the same name, which has evolved independently since around 2009. This article focuses …

The simulation of light transport in the presence of multi-bounce glossy effects and motion is
challenging because the integrand is high dimensional and areas of high-contribution tend …

The last few years have seen a decisive move of the movie making industry towards
rendering using physically based methods, mostly implemented in terms of path tracing …

High-frequency illumination effects, such as highly glossy highlights on curved surfaces, are
challenging to render in a stable manner. Such features can be much smaller than the area …

Recent work demonstrates that interactive ray tracing is possible on desktop systems, but
there is still much debate as to how to most efficiently support advanced visual effects such …

The rendering efficiency of Monte Carlo path tracing often depends on the ease of path
construction. For scenes with particularly complex visibility, eg where the camera and light …