blender/intern
Lukas Stockner 23c276832b Cycles: Add multi-scattering, energy-conserving GGX as an option to the Glossy, Anisotropic and Glass BSDFs
This commit adds a new distribution to the Glossy, Anisotropic and Glass BSDFs that implements the
multiple-scattering microfacet model described in the paper "Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model".

Essentially, the improvement is that unlike classical GGX, which only models single scattering and assumes
the contribution of multiple bounces to be zero, this new model performs a random walk on the microsurface until
the ray leaves it again, which ensures perfect energy conservation.

In practise, this means that the "darkening problem" - GGX materials becoming darker with increasing
roughness - is solved in a physically correct and efficient way.

The downside of this model is that it has no (known) analytic expression for evalation. However, it can be
evaluated stochastically, and although the correct PDF isn't known either, the properties of MIS and the
balance heuristic guarantee an unbiased result at the cost of slightly higher noise.

Reviewers: dingto, #cycles, brecht

Reviewed By: dingto, #cycles, brecht

Subscribers: bliblubli, ace_dragon, gregzaal, brecht, harvester, dingto, marcog, swerner, jtheninja, Blendify, nutel

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2002
2016-06-23 22:57:26 +02:00
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atomic Atomic ops: Fix atomic_add_uint32 and atomic_sub_uint32 in Windows 2016-06-11 22:15:25 +02:00
audaspace Fix warnings reported by MSVC 2016-02-23 09:44:54 +01:00
container Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
cycles Cycles: Add multi-scattering, energy-conserving GGX as an option to the Glossy, Anisotropic and Glass BSDFs 2016-06-23 22:57:26 +02:00
decklink BGE: DeckLink card support for video capture and streaming. 2016-06-11 22:26:05 +02:00
dualcon Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
eigen Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
elbeem Silence some annoying warnings when doing full build with strict flags 2016-04-22 10:59:15 +02:00
ffmpeg Fix compilation error with FFmpeg and Ubuntu Trusty 2016-02-19 22:05:06 +01:00
ghost Attempted fix for T48625: tablet button configured to right click not working on OS X. 2016-06-11 20:32:24 +02:00
glew-mx Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
gpudirect BGE: DeckLink card support for video capture and streaming. 2016-06-11 22:26:05 +02:00
guardedalloc Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
iksolver CMake: add missing headers 2016-04-12 11:22:30 +10:00
itasc Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
libmv Compositor: Speedup movie (un)distortion operation 2016-01-26 11:44:43 +01:00
locale Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
memutil Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
mikktspace Cleanup: warning 2016-03-13 15:15:38 +11:00
moto BGE: Various render improvements. 2016-06-11 22:05:20 +02:00
opencolorio Cleanup: glsl style 2016-05-26 18:53:09 +10:00
opensubdiv Cleanup: glsl style 2016-05-26 18:53:09 +10:00
openvdb Fix T48236: OpenVDB smoke cache glitches out with smokeless flames. 2016-04-22 11:46:02 +02:00
rigidbody Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
smoke Smoke (fire): Move spectrum code from C++ (intern/) to C code (BLI) 2016-01-09 04:48:31 +01:00
string Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
utfconv Remove SCons building system 2016-01-04 14:20:48 +05:00
CMakeLists.txt BGE: DeckLink card support for video capture and streaming. 2016-06-11 22:26:05 +02:00