<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello André,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the Appleseed renderer had a method like that implemented in last year’s GSOC, you can look at its source code here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/blob/master/src/appleseed/renderer/kernel/lighting/lighttree.cpp" class="">https://github.com/appleseedhq/appleseed/blob/master/src/appleseed/renderer/kernel/lighting/lighttree.cpp</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Petra, the student who wrote the code, blogged about it here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://medium.com/@petragospodneti/gsoc-2017-with-appleseedhq-cc5f33d04170" class="">https://medium.com/@petragospodneti/gsoc-2017-with-appleseedhq-cc5f33d04170</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s also a discussion about many lights sampling here:</div><div class=""><a href="http://ompf2.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1938" class="">http://ompf2.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1938</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Stefan<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14. Feb 2018, at 14:53, André Lourenço <<a href="mailto:alourenco.94@hotmail.com" class="">alourenco.94@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I'm André Lourenço, a Software Engineering Master's student, and I would <br class="">like to explore the "Many Light Sampling" project idea for GSoC 18. I <br class="">have been searching for study materials and would like to know if anyone <br class="">recommends any specific paper or book, besides the one linked in the <br class="">wiki, that I could study about this. Thank you.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Best Regards,<br class=""><br class="">André Lourenço<br class=""><br class="">(IRC: alourenco)<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Bf-cycles mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org" class="">Bf-cycles@blender.org</a><br class="">https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>