VU Rendering - Hall of Fame 2023 | TU Wien – Research Unit of Computer Graphics

Acceleration structure competition (San Miguel scene, time in seconds)

The results are not directly comparable to the ones from last year because the workstation was a different one.

Student	Build [s]	Render [s]	Sum [s]
🥇 Forkert Dominik Leopold	12,0	158,0	170,0
🥈 Hürbe Matthias	11,0	201,2	212,3
🥉 Belic Dejan	13,9	507,7	521,6
Braunsperger Martin	18,0	555,7	573,7
EPFL reference	10,3	602,6	612,9
Landauer Michael Franz	29,1	963,4	992,5
Kimmersdorfer Gerald	12,9	1064,5	1077,4
Wiesinger Andreas	82,7	1357,5	1440,1
Irger Alexandra	86,5	1580,5	1667,0
Nawrocki Jakub	7,2	3024,2	3031,4
Dworschak Lucas	122,6	3725,7	3848,3
Gawor Adrian Jan	57,4	4646,4	4703,8
Schoenegger Loris	n/a	n/a	n/a
Jemetz Michael	n/a	n/a	n/a

Scene competition

🥇 Dejan Belic

Corner of an old room. Dimly lit by a singular light source.
Rendered using Bidirectional ray tracing.
Implements Microfacet BSDFs, discrete BSDFs, textures, normal maps, roughness maps, tone mapping, and anti-aliasing.

🥈 Dominik Forkert

Bar scene arranged in Blender:
- Mesh emitters featuring chromatic gradients
- Dielectric and microfacet BRDFs
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous participating media featuring multi-chromatic delta tracking with absorption and muliple scattering
- Depth of field effect
- Multiple importance sampling (with support for participating media)
- Uchimura tone mapper
- Mitchell–Netravali filter

🥉 Matthias Hürbe

An empty bar after hours

Michael Franz Landauer

I created the scene in Blender.
The Stanford dragon is the only model which I did not created or modified.
The bunny in the background is based on the Stanford bunny and I modified the mesh according to a Youtube tutorial.
For the floor and wall, I used textures.

Featuring: DoF, Texturing, Anti-aliasing