Math behind vray

[janzinho]

Hello!

I am a second year student of architecture and i have a project asigment to do about the mathematical processes behind different render engines in vray. I was wondering if anyone of you knows anything about it or knows in which book to look for. It would really help me a lot. I've done some research and everything is so basic and it's hard to find something that would show me how vray does the all the different light calculations. I thank you in advance and hope to hear from you soon.

Greetings from Slovenia

j.

[-Keith]

Re: Math behind vray

Trade secrets and all but this may be helpful:
http://www.xedium3d.com/tutorials/raytracing/

The term to look for is ray tracing. There is a lot of information out there on how this is done and not every engine does it the same way.

www.lmgtfy.com/?q=ray+tracing
Hehe funny link, but still relevant.

Seriously though good luck with the report. I am better at specific questions.

[Jackson_cg]

Re: Math behind vray

Sorry I can't be of any help, but I couldn't read this topic without asking: you're a second year architecture student- why the heck are you expected to do an assignment on the mathematical processes of render engines?!!! What's that got to do with architecture? :-\

[janzinho]

Re: Math behind vray

It's for the Math subject at our faculty. You can either learn math and do the exam in a traditional way or you can do a project about a topic you like. Since i'm interested in visualisation and i dont have the will to sit behind the books and learn some formulas that i will forget within the next month, i decied to do the project and actually try to understand the whole rendering process.

and thank you alrami the google one is quite important one hehe.

[Jackson_cg]

Re: Math behind vray

Ahhh, ok.