PBR Overviews

  • Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation

    Comprehensive reference on physically based rendering techniques

  • Learn OpenGL: Shadow Mapping

    Learn OpenGL's tutorial on physically based rendering

  • Physically Based Rendering in Filament

    Google's documentation on the PBR system on their Filament renderer on Android. Best in class documentation about high performance PBR lighting shaders

  • Robust Monte Carlo Methods for Light Transport Simulation

    the Academy Award-winning Ph.D. thesis by Eric Veach. It starts from bidirectional light transport algorithms and introduces multiple importance sampling and Metropolis light transport

  • Advanced Global Illumination

    An advanced book focused on light transport theory for global illumination.

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  • Basics of physically-based rendering (Siggraph 2012)

    This tutorial will cover the basics of physically-based rendering such as reflection models (BRDF), volume scattering (phase functions), optical phenomena (dispersion and polarization)

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  • Physically based rendering from first principles

    An interactive article exploring the physical phenomena that create light and the fundamental laws governing its interaction with matter, and gradually introduce models of creating physically realistic renderings

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  • Readings on Physically Based Rendering

    A collection of resources related to physically based rendering (last updated in 2018)