Participating media are frequent in real-world scenes, whether they contain milk, fruit juice,
oil, or muddy water in a river or the ocean. Incoming light interacts with these participating …

Complex visual effects such as caustics are often produced by light paths containing
multiple consecutive specular vertices (dubbed specular chains), which pose a challenge to …

Caustics are interesting patterns caused by the light being focused when reflecting off glossy
materials. Rendering them in computer graphics is still challenging: they correspond to high …

Caustics are complex optical effects caused by the light being concentrated in a small area
due to reflection or refraction on surfaces with low roughness, typically under a sharp light …

The detailed glinty appearance from complex surface microstructures enhances the level of
realism but is both-and time-consuming to render, especially when viewed from far away …

Finding valid light paths that involve specular vertices in Monte Carlo rendering requires
solving many non-linear, transcendental equations in high-dimensional space. Existing …

Multi‐bounce, pure specular light paths produce complex lighting effects, such as caustics
and sparkle highlights, which are challenging to render due to their sparse and diverse …

Complex lighting phenomenon such as the caustics often arises from specular chains of
varying lengths. Thanks to recent advancement in specular light transport, we are able to …

We propose an importance sampling scheme for the procedural glittering BSDF of Chermain
et al.[CSDD20]. Glittering BSDFs have multi-lobe visible normal distribution functions …

Rendering glinty details from specular microstructure enhances the level of realism in
computer graphics. However, naive sampling fails to render such effects, due to insufficient …