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Rendering Equations
Personal blog · schuttejoe.github.io/postprogrammingscience
Rendering Equations is a personal blog at schuttejoe.github.io about programming and science. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Rendering the Moana Island Scene Part 2:A production scene from a hobby renderer”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts as a series on rendering the Moana island scene, covering Disney's BSDF and a post-mortem of the render. Comments cite them as references without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rendering the Moana Island Scene Part 2:A production scene from a hobby renderer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-10-13
What Hacker News says?
The point isn't that they use Apple, it's that they would be willing to pay 5 figures for a workstation: https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneypostmortem/ > This image was rendered at 2048x858 with 256spp and took 3.5 hours to render. I allowed it access to 28Gb of RAM but had to estimate how much embree would use for BVH data so it occasionally would exceed that number enough that the OS would start paging.
Comment linking /post/disneypostmortem/
on “New Mac Pro”Submitted Rendering the Moana Island Scene Part 2:A production scene from a hobby renderer as a story · 16 points
HN discussionA couple of other attempts at rendering the Moana scene with something other than Hyperion: - Matt Pharr (author of pbrt) -- 6 part series: https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/07/08/moana-island-pbrt-1.h... - Joe Schutte (WDAS): https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneybsdf/
Comment linking /post/disneybsdf/
on “Moana Motunui Renderer on GPU”Another series on this mammoth dataset: 1. https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneybsdf/ 2. https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneypostmortem/
Comment linking /post/disneypostmortem/
on “Swallowing the elephant (part 1)”