15-468, 15-668, 15-868 Physics-based rendering
Spring 2023

Rendering competition

Technical award winner

Shilin Ma — Shilin Ma: Specular Manifold Sampling

Art award winner

Gustavo Silvera — Gustavo Silvera: Practical Path Guiding

All submissions (alphabetical order)

Ajax Shung — Ajax Shung: Rendering Wood

Alan Lee — Alan Lee: Map the Photons

Bharath Raj — Bharath Raj: Progressive Photon Mapping

Dakota Hernandez — Dakota Hernandez: Layered Materials

Dakshit Agrawal — Dakshit Agrawal: PSS MLT and Depth of Field

Davis Wojnovich — Davis Wojnovich: Bidirectional Path Tracing

Dianne Ge — Dianne Ge: Bidirectional Path Tracing and GGX BRDF

Ethan Chu — Ethan Chu: Bidirectional Path Tracing and Multiplexed Metropolis Light Transport

Grey Golla — Grey Golla: Optimizing Bounding Volume Hierarchy Traversal with Vectorized Instructions

Gustavo Silvera — Gustavo Silvera: Practical Path Guiding

Jacky Sun — Jacky Sun: Subsurface Scattering and Spectral Rendering

Kris Chen — Kris Chen: Position-free Monte Carlo Layered Material and Spectral Rendering

Lance Yarlott — Lance Yarlott: Polynomial Optics (and some PSSMLT)

Lingxi Zhang — Lingxi Zhang: Fun with Material and Texture

Loïc Lescoat — Loïc Lescoat: Implementation of ReSTIR algorithm

Nathan Glover — Nathan Glover: Progressive Photon Mapping and a Step Towards Verified Rendering

Nicole Feng — Nicole Feng: Monte Carlo Estimation of Signed Distance

Robin Zheng — Robin Zheng: Position-Free Monte Carlo Unidirectional Simulation for Layered Material

Ruben Partono — Ruben Partono: Subsurface Scattering

Sally Chen — Sally Chen: Differentiable rendering of local parameters

Shilin Ma — Shilin Ma: Specular Manifold Sampling

Shun Iwase — Shun Iwase: Non-Exponential Radiative Transfer and Position-free Monte Carlo Simulation

Tianyuan Zhang — Tianyuan Zhang: Can range analysis help raycasting?

Weisheng Li — Weisheng Li: SGGX Microflake Distribution and Layered Material with Statistical Operator

Wenlong Yan — Wenlong Yan: Depth of Field and Bidirectional Path Tracing

Yehonathan Litman — Yehonathan Litman: GGX, Orthographic Camera, Non-Exponential Media, and BRDF Space Learning

Yuan Meng — Yuan Meng: Primary Sample Space MLT and Delayed Rejection

Ziwen Ye — Ziwen Ye: Spectral Rendering

Final project presentations

A compilation (in alphabetical order by last name) of the final project presentations accompanying the rendering competition submissions is available here.

Rendering competition judge

The submissions were judged by Prof. Tzu-Mao Li from University of California San Diego, who selected the winning submissions for the technical and art awards. Thanks Tzu-Mao!

Rendering competition prizes

The winners of the technical and art awards won fully-funded (registration, travel, lodging) trips to SIGGRAPH 2023.