== pbrt build process == I built pbrt on the myth machines, and then on my own Linux machine, with no problem. == Speeding up the rendering process == I set the image size to 200*200, with 2 sample rays per pixel, which makes the rendering pretty fast. I also wrote a simple script to be able to "render/convert to tif/display the resulting tif" with just one command. == Experimentation == Obtaining the first configuration was pretty straightforward. However I had trouble getting a correct image for configuration 2.