Advanced Material Rendering in Blender

Interactive and offline rendering in Blender Cycles

In this paper, we describe interactive and offline rendering performed on multiple nodes of an HPC (High Performance Computing) cluster. Compute nodes can be equipped with Intel Xeon processors and also Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. Rendering is utilized in Blender (open source 3D creation suite). We have modified the kernel of the Blender Cycles rendering engine and then extended its capabiliti...

Advanced Light Material Interaction for Direct Volume Rendering

In this paper we present a heuristic approach for simulating advanced light material interactions in the context of interactive volume rendering. In contrast to previous work, we are able to incorporate complex material functions, which allow to simulate reflectance and scattering. We exploit a common representation of these material properties based on spherical harmonic basis functions, to co...

Blender for robotics and robotics for Blender

Computer animation and robotics have most of their mathematical foundations in common. So, Blender is a natural (but still undiscovered and imperfect) GUI candidate for robot simulation and programming. The robotics research community lacks an advanced graphical tool such as Blender, but, on the other hand, it has more advanced and efficient algorithms than Blender for the physically realistic ...

Inverse Volume Rendering with Material Dictionaries: Supplementary Material

Translucent materials are ubiquitous, and simulating their appearance requires accurate physical parameters. However, physicallyaccurate parameters for scattering materials are difficult to acquire. We introduce an optimization framework for measuring bulk scattering properties of homogeneous materials (phase function, scattering coefficient, and absorption coefficient) that is more accurate, a...

Supplementary Material: A Framework for Transient Rendering