Papers

Cycles Papers

An (incomplete) list of papers that we based Cycles code on:

• Constructing Sobol sequences with better two-dimensional projections (link)
• Diploma Thesis Motion Blur (pdf)
• Ray Tracing Deformable Scenes using Dynamic Bounding Volume Hierarchies (pdf)
• Spatial Splits in Bounding Volume Hierarchies (link)
• Optimally Combining Sampling Techniques for Monte Carlo Rendering (link)
• A Practical Analytic Model for Daylight (link)
• Microfacet Models for Refraction through Rough Surfaces (pdf)
• Predicting Reflectance Functions from Complex Surfaces (link)
• Measuring and Modeling Anisotropic Reflection (link)
• Notes on the Ward BRDF (pdf)
• A Microfacet-based BRDF Generator (link)
• Tracing Ray Differentials (link)
• What is the Space of Camera Response Functions? (link)
• Fast, minimum storage ray-triangle intersection (link)
• Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs (link)
• A Ray Tracing Hardware Architecture for Dynamic Scenes (link)
• Improving Noise (link)
• Texturing and Modelling: A procedural approach