Rendering Sand COMP 870 - Advanced Image Synthesis Final Project

Rendering of sand is an interesting problem that has been addressed at various times in the past. Most efforts have been in the direction of rendering moving sand grains, which are handled as particles rendered with motion-blur. More recently, there have also been efforts at rendering slow moving and static sand particles. In such cases, accurate sampling and rendering of particles becomes important. This project attempts to create a renderer for such sand on the lines of the method sketched out in [Allen et al. 2007]. The project is an attempt to try and recreate a similar quality rendering for 3D meshes in Renderman c ©. In the process, I also aimed to learn more about Renderman Dynamic Shared Objects (DSOs) and using them to create procedural objects. ∗e-mail: [email protected]