Journal series

Rendering

Engineering problems, experiments and design decisions behind rendering systems, from numerical computation to practical visualization.

  1. What If Your Simulation Works, but the Image Doesn't?

    A daylight simulation can compute lighting values that are difficult to display. Here's how tone mapping helped make the scene readable without confusing visualization with measurement.

    Two exposures of the same house: one reveals the interior while washing out the exterior, the other preserves the exterior while leaving the interior dark.