<div dir="ltr"><div>For the planning, I suggest to get the basic BVH building and traversal working for point lights first, and then add area lights, add mesh lights, add importance from light intensity, ... Try to have some working implementation as soon as possible, and then iterate on it from there.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">To start, you can of course spend a day or two browsing the code, creating initial test files etc. But also plan to write some code in the first week. It may go very slow as you are feeling your way around the code, but it means you are leaning about the things that are actually important to your project.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also link to the paper(s) you are planning to base this implementation on.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:40 PM, André Lourenço <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alourenco.94@hotmail.com" target="_blank">alourenco.94@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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Thank you for warning me. Here is the google docs link:
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Here is my first draft of my Many Lights Sampling for GSoC 2018. Feedback is welcome. Thank you for your atention.<br>
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