The famous Pool Scene - a vague approximation

[binarycortex]

I was looking for the blend of the famous pool scene last night, but could not find it. So I decided to try and recreate it.

32 S/px
exphotonmap + LD-hilbert

32 S/px
exphotonmap + LD-hilbert
Tonemapping changed to display the caustics in and on the side of the pool better.

[Glendaloch]

Yes I was looking for this one too, (and never found it). The camera position and light are pretty important.

[jeanphi]

Hi,

I just need to find a few minutes to tidy the blend and upload it, zsouthboy has approved it.
I'm usually using a heavily modified set of exported file and not the blend directly so I have to backport a few tweaks to the blend.

Jeanphi

[Glendaloch]

Hi,

I just need to find a few minutes to tidy the blend and upload it, zsouthboy has approved it.
I'm usually using a heavily modified set of exported file and not the blend directly so I have to backport a few tweaks to the blend.

Jeanphi

It would be great to have this scene generally available. It is one of the nicest test scenes around (imho)!

[qinjuehang]

It should be possible to get caustics with the rest of the scene visible! Try Luminance HDR with Mantiuk06 or Reinhard05 tonemapping.

[jeanphi]

Hi,

Regarding your attempt at recreating the scene, what makes this scene so difficult to render is that the sun is not hitting the pool directly. The sun is hitting the copper sphere and the light is then reflected into the pool, on the walls, ...

Jeanphi

[binarycortex]

Texture goodness. New photon formula makes renders taste great and are less filling.

This is all the same render with different tonemapping settings. It was done with lowdiscrepancy/hilbert at 256 pixelsamples using exphotonmap. It was rendered to 256 spp.

linear tonemapper set to fill the room with light

linear tonemapper set to display the caustics on the side and bottom of the pool

saved as untonemapped exr, used qtpfsgui to tonemap it, used mantiuk

[binarycortex]

Posting updated blend with packed textures and updated geometry, also the water tabulated data file.

[Abel]

used qtpfsgui to tonemap it, used mantiuk

I've never seen Mantiuk tonemapping look this good before!

[jmil]

Posting updated blend with packed textures and updated geometry, also the water tabulated data file.

hmm... scene looks really good but unfortunately all the LuxRender Materials are missing... The named material types are all there but they are all set to white matte. How do I get them back?

Would really like to render this on my computer!!! Thanks for posting!