CS348B Spring 2007 Rendering Competition

James and Qiqi used an off-the-shelf fluid dynamics package to generate a volume representing a waterfall and accompanying spray into the air. They experimented with single and multiple scattering through the volume, and modeled wavelength-dependent scattering behavior to generate rainbows.

Laurie and Andrew rendered these beautiful soap images using Jensen's Hierarchical BSSRDF method. The contours on the face of the soap were creating using displacement maps in Maya and exporting the displaced geometry to pbrt.

Anders and Jawed synthesized the appearance of jet exhaust by using a procedurally generated texture to modulate the index of refraction of the material assigned to a point sprite positioned behind the jet.

David implemented volumetric photon mapping to produce this scene containing procedurally-generated volumetric fog enveloping dew-laden leaves of a plant.

Priscilla and Tom generated the branches of the cherry blossom tree using an L-system. They added complexity using displacement mapping (to enhance the silhouette) and bump mapping (for the rings in the bark). They procedurally-generated cherry blossoms using Mathematica and rendered them using thin layer subsurface scattering.

Christina and Crystal implemented by fast-hierarchical BSSRDF scattering and multiple-thin-layer scattering to rendering this underwater scene of a clown fish in a field of anemone. The anemone were procedurally generated.

Ian implemented a smoke simulation on a 100x100x100 voxel grid and used pbrt's volume rendering capabilities to produce this animation.

Stefan modeled the basic stitch of an afghan-like weave and sampled the spatially varying brdf of a cloth constructed using this weave by using pbrt to shoot a large number of rays at the weave geometry. He then used this brdf to efficiently render a large sheet of cloth represented using only macro-geometry (no weave).

Nico and Michael procedurally generated clouds and modeled the effect of Mie scattering in the atmosphere to generate realistic urban skies. Light scattering within clouds is approximated by single scattering volumetric rendering with an additional emissive term.

Given a location on the each and time of day, Dick computed the position of the sun in the sky and rendered this realistic sunrise. A realistic atmosphere model simulating Mie scattering gives the sky it's color.

Curtis implemented volumetric photon mapping and procedurally computed a density texture to produce this rendering of a slice of watermelon.

Julien augmented the assignment 3 realistic camera project by adding effects such as total internal reflection and Fresnel reflection off lenses that cause lens flare inside a camera. Mie scattering was used to produce the halo around the sun.