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Summer of Math Exposition

Physically based rendering from first principles

Audience: high-schoolundergraduategraduate

Tags: graphicsphysicslightphotons

An interactive article exploring the physical phenomena that governs how light behaves and interacts with matter to make a PBR renderer



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7 Overall score*
11 Rank
13 Votes
10 Comments

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8.3

Great educational value, cool interactive visualizations.

6.5

I do enjoy the interactive visuals. For some of the parts, they illustrate clearly what is happening in here. Sometimes it may not be connected that well to what is explained in the text (e.g difference between metals vs non metals, and I’m not sure what the sliding scale intends to show the difference between the two materials).

The end section on rendering equation can be tidied to have a more coherent story on how it connects. It wasn’t clear how it connected with the Chapter 1/2 on reflection/refraction or the more medium models and what is really added as it was a separate entity.

7.9

The visuals are extremely cool!

6

One of the coolest interactives and animations I’ve ever seen! However, this is not really about math content and more about physics, plus it requires a prerequisite knowledge about optics and electromagnetism to appreciate the interactive. But this would be super helpful for a Physics student!

3.6

The demos were very well done. Beautiful, functional, and performant.

7

This was fantastic. Loved the interactive elements. Everything was explained clearly at a good pace. Honestly, I can’t think of a single thing to criticize, this was just a solid article from top to bottom.

8

Some of the information in the beginning felt a bit too tangential to the main topic, but it was still great nonetheless

6.4

The audience could be narrowed a bit.

6

Very well explained. Interactive widgets are very helpful to understand the topic.

7.8

Excellent use of interactive elements on the webpage so readers can understand concrete concepts of light and magnetism, then abstract things away. How did you wrap the “Non-metals” section when describing “diffuse reflection”? It’s impressive and magnetic attractor to attention. I’ve bookmarked your article and will reread. I hope you make more content! I’ve rated your Ranking score based on the average of these individual scores, good luck: Motivation: 9 Clarity: 7 Novelty: 8 Memorability: 7