Reflections on GSoC 2022
December 19, 2022A three month late reflection on GSoC 2022.
Written by Jeffrey Liu who is a second-year Math & CS undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Weighted Reservoir Sampling for Adaptive Splitting
August 11, 2022The Cycles version of adaptive splitting.
Correcting for Multiple Importance Sampling
July 09, 2022Fixes to the PDF calculations to adjust for the light tree sampling.
Adding More Light Types
July 02, 2022How different light types in Blender are used in the many lights sampling algorithm.
Supporting Point Lights
June 18, 2022A more detailed technical explanation of supporting the many lights algorithm for point lights in Blender.
Motivating Many Lights Sampling
June 08, 2022An introduction to the many lights sampling algorithm and how I plan to implement it in Blender.
Introduction to GSoC with Blender
June 05, 2022A self-introduction and my plans for this series.