Mathematical Models and Monte Carlo Algorithms for Physically Based Rendering

The dissertation gives an overview of Monte Carlo techniques and optimisations for photo-realistic image synthesis. Various unbiased variance reduction techniques are discussed and compared, both in theory and in practice. The recent bidirectional path tracing algorithm is presented and compared to classical path tracing.

The following pages provide more details:

• The abstract
• An overview of the contents per chapter
• The detailed table of contents
• The set of all colour images from the text

You can also download the dissertation itself:

• The cover pages (2 pages, 28 K of gzip'ed Postscript, expands to 61 K)
• The dissertation with grey-scale images (142+2 pages, 4.2 MB of gzip'ed Postscript, expands to 10.5 MB)
• A more compact version of the dissertation with b/w images (1.1 MB of gzip'ed Postscript, expands to 3.8 MB)

Please let me know if you have any problems with viewing or printing any of these files. They have been created using LaTeX, bibtex, dvips, gnuplot, make, sed, Framemaker, the URT toolkit, the PBM tools, xv, my MC renderer and various additional scripts and hacks to put everything together. Enjoy!