hakonjdjohnsen a day ago

Yes, exactly. I have not looked at Mitsuba 2, but Mitsuba 3 is absolutely along these lines. It is just starting to be picked up by some of the nonimaging/illumination community, e.g. there was a paper last year from Aurele Adam's group at TU Delft where they used it for optimizing a "magic window" [1]. Some tradeoffs and constraints are a bit different when doing optical design versus doing (inverse) rendering, but it definitely shows what is possible.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.515422

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  • roflmaostc a day ago

    Shameless plug, we use Mitsuba 3/Dr.JIT for image optimization around volumetric 3D printing https://github.com/rgl-epfl/drtvam

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    • pjmlp 20 hours ago

      It looks quite interesting, especially the part of scripting everything in Python with a JIT, instead of the traditional having to do everything in either C or C++.

      Looking forward to some weekend paper reading.

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    • hakonjdjohnsen a day ago

      Looks really cool! I look forward to reading your paper. Do you know if a recording of the talk is/will be posted somewhere?

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      • roflmaostc 16 hours ago

        We presented this work at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024. But I think they do not record it?

        Maybe in some time we also do an online workshop about it.

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  • accurrent a day ago

    I dont know much about Optical engineering, but this sounds super exciting. I think I meant to point to mitsuba 3, not 2.

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