Cover -- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Preface -- Audience -- Overview and Goals -- Changes Since the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- About the Cover -- Additional Reading -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1.1 Literate Programming -- 1.2 Photorealistic Rendering and the Ray-Tracing Algorithm -- 1.3 pbrt: System Overview -- 1.4 How to Proceed Through this Book -- 1.5 Using and Understanding the Code -- Further Reading -- Exercise -- Chapter Two: Geometry and Transformations -- 2.1 Coordinate Systems -- 2.2 Vectors -- 2.3 Points -- 2.4 Normals -- 2.5 Rays -- 2.6 Three-Dimensional Bounding Boxes -- 2.7 Transformations -- 2.8 Applying Transformations -- 2.9 Animating Transformations -- 2.10 Differential Geometry -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Three: Shapes -- 3.1 Basic Shape Interface -- 3.2 Spheres -- 3.3 Cylinders -- 3.4 Disks -- 3.5 Other Quadrics -- 3.6 Triangles and Meshes -- 3.7 Subdivision Surfaces -- Exercises -- Further Reading -- Chapter Four: Primitives and Intersection Acceleration -- 4.1 Primitive Interface and Geometric Primitives -- 4.2 Aggregates -- 4.3 Grid Accelerator -- 4.4 Bounding Volume Hierarchies -- 4.5 Kd-Tree Accelerator -- 4.6 Debugging Aggregates -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Five: Color and Radiometry -- 5.1 Spectral Representation -- 5.2 The SampledSpectrum Class -- 5.3 RGBSpectrum Implementation -- 5.4 Basic Radiometry -- 5.5 Working with Radiometric Integrals -- 5.6 Surface Reflection -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Six: Camera Models -- 6.1 Camera Model -- 6.2 Projective Camera Models -- 6.3 Environment Camera -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Seven: Sampling and Reconstruction -- 7.1 Sampling Theory -- 7.2 Image Sampling Interface -- 7.3 Stratified Sampling.

7.4 Low-Discrepancy Sampling -- 7.5 Best-Candidate Sampling Patterns -- 7.6 Adaptive Sampling -- 7.7 Image Reconstruction -- 7.8 Film and The Imaging Pipeline -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Eight: Reflection Models -- 8.1 Basic Interface -- 8.2 Specular Reflection and Transmission -- 8.3 Lambertian Reflection -- 8.4 Microfacet Models -- 8.5 Fresnel Incidence Effects -- 8.6 Measured BRDFs -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Nine: Materials -- 9.1 BSDFs -- 9.2 Material Interface and Implementations -- 9.3 Bump Mapping -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Ten: Texture -- 10.1 Sampling and Antialiasing -- 10.2 Texture Coordinate Generation -- 10.3 Texture Interface and Basic Textures -- 10.4 Image Texture -- 10.5 Solid and Procedural Texturing -- 10.6 Noise -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Eleven: Volume Scattering -- 11.1 Volume Scattering Processes -- 11.2 Phase Functions -- 11.3 Volume Interface and Homogeneous Media -- 11.4 Varying-Density Volumes -- 11.5 Volume Aggregates -- 11.6 The BSSRDF -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Twelve: Light Sources -- 12.1 Light Interface -- 12.2 Point Lights -- 12.3 Distant Lights -- 12.4 Area Lights -- 12.5 Infinite Area Lights -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Thirteen: Monte Carlo Integration I: Basic Concepts -- 13.1 Background and Probability Review -- 13.2 The Monte Carlo Estimator -- 13.3 Basic Sampling of Random Variables -- 13.4 Metropolis Sampling -- 13.5 Transforming Between Distributions -- 13.6 2D Sampling With Multidimensional Transformations -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Fourteen: Monte Carlo Integration II: Improving Efficiency -- 14.1 Russian Roulette and Splitting -- 14.2 Careful Sample Placement -- 14.3 Bias -- 14.4 Importance Sampling -- 14.5 Sampling Reflection Functions -- 14.6 Sampling Light Sources -- 14.7 Volume Scattering.

Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Fiveteen: Light Transport I: Surface Reflection -- 15.1 Direct Lighting -- 15.2 The Light Transport Equation -- 15.3 Path Tracing -- 15.4 Instant Global Illumination -- 15.5 Irradiance Caching -- 15.6 Particle Tracing and Photon Mapping -- 15.7 Metropolis Light Transport -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Sixteen: Light Transport II: Volume Rendering -- 16.1 The Equation of Transfer -- 16.2 Volume Integrator Interface -- 16.3 Emission-Only Integrator -- 16.4 Single Scattering Integrator -- 16.5 Subsurface Scattering -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Seventeen: Light Transport III: Precomputed Light Transport -- 17.1 Basis Functions: Theory -- 17.2 Spherical Harmonics -- 17.3 Radiance Probes -- 17.4 Precomputed Diffuse Transfer -- 17.5 Precomputed Glossy Transfer -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter Eighteen: Retrospective and the Future -- 18.1 Design Retrospective -- 18.2 Throughput Processors -- 18.3 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Utilities -- A.1 Main Include File -- A.2 Image File Input and Output -- A.3 Communicating With the User -- A.4 Probes and Statistics -- A.5 Memory Management -- A.6 Mathematical Routines -- A.7 Octrees -- A.8 KD-Trees -- A.9 Parallelism -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Appendix B: Scene Description Interface -- B.1 Parameter Sets -- B.2 Initialization and Rendering Options -- B.3 Scene Definition -- B.4 Adding New Object Implementations -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Appendix C: Index of Fragments -- Appendix D: Index of Classes and their Members -- Appendix E: Index of Miscellaneous Identifiers -- References -- Index -- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation -- Index of Notation.