Project 3: Aditya Hota

[adityahota]

• Repo Link
• Features
  • Loading of arbitrary object models (in the Wavefront OBJ format)
  • Simulation of refraction with Frensel effects
  • Physically-based depth of field and object focusing
  • Anti-aliasing to smoothen rendered scenes
  • Shading of objects using BSDF evaluation
  • Performance features
    • Mesh intersection culling using bounding boxes to reduce mesh render times
    • Termination of unnecessary paths using stream compaction
    • Material sorting to allow for more contiguous memory accesses
    • Caching the first bounce
• Feedback
  • This project was very rewarding and I loved being able to model the physical world on the GPU. I learned a ton about how we can simulate materials and make optimizations to make our GPU perform a little bit better.

I used one late day, and my README was last updated on Oct 08 at 6:10 PM.