LiAR isn't a raytracer

I’ve started writing this post back in June, but I guess something else came up =) LiAR always has been an on-and-off thing, and this is no different. But let’s finish this one before the end of the year. For the last few weeks months, I’ve been working on a parser for the PBRT scene […]

LiAR supports the OpenEXR file format for several months now, but I only had it working on 32-bit windows. I was still missing the binaries for the 64-bit build, as you need to build the library yourself. For 64-bit Windows that turns out to be one tricky affair: Only Visual Studio solution files are available […]

… are really good fun. And a huge performance killer too. Especially if you enable in-scattering on your final gather rays. Oh boy, that really hurts! Still playing around with the Sponza atrium, I wanted to do a render of sunlight being casted through the arches on the first floor. Anyway, to cut things short, […]

“you may expect updates soon” means “Look, I’m working on it, but I can’t pull all-nighters anymore. So, it’s going to take a while, OK?” =) So, a mere three weeks after that previous statement, here’s my first real update on the LiAR ray tracer. What have I been doing? Well, I concentrated my efforts […]

OK, it has been more than two years since my last update on liar.bramz.net. Back then, we moved from liar.sf.net to liar.bramz.org to liar.bramz.net, the subversion repository got a new URL, and everything went silent. What happened? Well, I started taking real pictures instead, that’s what happened … And I started doing it quite regularly […]