CS 5620/6620 - Fall 2025 - Rendering with Ray Tracing

Project 12 - Photon Mapping

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Chase Harkcom

Sat, Nov 22, 2025 @ 3:03 am

Final gathering. Took about 20 minutes to render. 16-64 samples, 20 MC samples with 2 bounces max, 1 million photons. I didnt do anything fancy with the caustics map or anything.

Sat, Nov 22, 2025 @ 12:18 am

Only indirect photons stored in the map. Same parameters as before. Took 1.5 minutes to render.

Sat, Nov 22, 2025 @ 12:09 am

Both direct and indirect photons stored in the photon map. 1 million photons, 4 bounces maximum. Took about 2 minutes to render.

Mon, Nov 17, 2025 @ 9:27 am

Tried doing normal direct illumination, but with photon mapping for indirect illumination, but it looks really bad...