Renderizado fotorrealista con Irradiance Caching

Abstract

[en] Nowadays, we are surrounded by computer generated images. Some examples may be: Furniture catalogs, video games, cinema... These images have evolved into what today is called Photorealistic Rendering, which is one of the most important topics in Computer Graphics. This project implements one photorealistic rendering algorithm called Irradiance Caching and compares it with another one called Path Tracing. Furthermore, it will showcase the differences between both of them and compare their execution times as well. The main goal is to program an Irradiance Caching algorithm in the ray tracer more efficient than the Path Tracing algorithm, maintaining the image quality as much as possible.