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appleseed

A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects

cc++qtgraphicsopenglpython

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4 GSoC years

2020 2019 2018 2017

2020

3 projects

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Microfacet-based Normal Mapping

Texture maps are used for defining material properties for every point per object surface. Normal maps are textures that are efficient for...

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New Post-Processing Stages

This project aims to equip the post-processing pipeline with a good amount of new artistic effects, to allow users to tweak the overall look and feel...

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Revisiting Physical Sun and Sky Model

This project will improve the current Appleseed's implementation of physical sun and sky models. Fixing the current blue tint present on Appleseed...

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2019

2 projects

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Light Paths Visualization and Viewport Unification

Light path recording is a unique and potentially extremely valuable tool in appleseed; however, it is currently relatively limited in capability of...

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Practical Path Guiding

For my Google Summer of Code project proposal I suggest implementing the technique described in the paper “Practical Path Guiding for Efficient...

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2018

3 projects

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Embree Integration

Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel and being adopted by a range of commercial renderers such as VRay...

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Hair Rendering II - Hair shader and binary format

The project aims to add three main components to the appleseed render to improve the hair and fur pipeline. Firstly, the addition of per vertex...

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Adaptive image plane sampling proposal

Current implementation of adaptive sampling needs to be overwriten so that it is more efficient, easier to use for any user and more robust regarding...

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2017

3 projects

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Python scripting feature for appleseed.studio

Python is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-use language which is often used to automate actions with scripts and to accelerate development of modules,...

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Implementation of the Improved Many-Light Sampling Algorithm by Nathan Veghdal

In order to render a nice looking scene (where light is concerned) we need to take into consideration that an object is lit by a combination of...

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Volume Rendering

Currently, appleseed only renders the surfaces of objects, and treats the space between objects as a void. Hereby, one of the most requested features...

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