Adjoint Particle Tracer (ptracer)

This plugin implements a simple adjoint particle tracer. It does essentially the exact opposite of the simple volumetric path tracer (volpath_simple): instead of tracing rays from the sensor and attempting to connect them to the light source, this integrator shoots particles from the light source and attempts to connect them to the sensor.
Usually, this is a relatively useless rendering technique due to its high variance, but there are some cases where it excels. In particular, it does a good job on scenes where most scattering events are directly visible to the camera.
When rendering with a finite-aperture sensor (e.g. thinlens) this integrator is able to intersect the actual aperture, which allows it to handle certain caustic paths that would otherwise not be visible.
It also supports a specialized “brute force” mode, where the integrator does not attempt to create connections to the sensor and purely relies on hitting it via ray tracing. This is one of the worst conceivable rendering and not recommended for any applications. It is mainly included for debugging purposes.
The number of traced particles is given by the number of “samples per pixel” of the sample generator times the pixel count of the output image. For instance, 16 samples per pixel on a 512×512 image will cause 4M particles to be generated.

Remarks:
• This integrator does not currently work with subsurface scattering models.

Parameter

  • Max. path depth : integer
    • Specifies the longest path depth in the generated output image (where -1 corresponds to ∞). A value of 1 will only render directly visible light sources. 2 will lead to singlebounce (direct-only) illumination, and so on. (Default: -1 -> 24 @ blender)

  • Russian roulette starting depth : integer
    • Specifies the minimum path depth, after which the implementation will start to use the “russian roulette” path termination criterion. (Default: 5 -> 10 @ blender)

  • Work unit granularity : integer
    • Specifies the work unit granularity used to parallize the the particle tracing task. This should be set high enough so that accumulating partially exposed images (and potentially sending them over the network) is not the bottleneck. (Default: 200K particles per work unit, i.e. 200000)

  • bruteForce : boolean (blender にはない?)
If set to true, the integrator does not attempt to create connections to the sensor and purely relies on hitting it via ray tracing. This is mainly intended for debugging purposes. (Default: false)


  • 最終更新:2014-07-25 09:03:55

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