Physically Based Rendering

About the Authors

You may contact the authors at authors@pbrt.org.

Matt Pharr

Matt Pharr recently cofounded Neoptica, a company that is developing software that will help change how interactive computer graphics is produced, used, and enjoyed. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at NVIDIA, where he worked in the Software Architecture group and also served as the editor of GPU Gems 2. He was a cofounder of Exluna and holds a B.S. degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he researched both theoretical and systems issues related to rendering and wrote a series of SIGGRAPH papers on these topics.

Greg Humphreys

Greg Humphreys is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, where his research focuses on interactive visualization of very large datasets. Greg has a B.S. degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, where Pat Hanrahan was his advisor. His doctoral dissertation, "A Stream Processing Approach to Interactive Graphics on Clusters of Workstations," showed that it was possible to build scalable interactive graphics systems using only commodity components. His cluster-rendering software called "Chromium" is in widespread use in research and industry labs around the world.