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This page lists known errors in the first and second editions of the book. Errata are separated into important errors (of interest to all readers) and minor errors (likely of interest only to the authors and the publisher).

Important Errors In The Second Edition

Page Error
782In the fragment "Compute virtual light's tentative contribution Llight" at the top of the page, the line with the assignment to Llight should divide by nLightPaths, not virtualLights[lSet].size(). [Thomas Engelhardt]

Minor Errors In The Second Edition

Page Error
365The final parenthetical statement at the end of the caption for FIgure 7.26 is incorrect; it should be removed. [Matt Pharr]
550In the definition of the function c(x) in the first displayed equation, "odd" should be "even" [Brad Loos]
566In the second sentence of Section 10.6.5, the reference to Figure 7.36 should be to Figure 7.35. [Brad Loos]
732At the second line from the bottom, "N d" should be "N / d". [Volodymyr Kachurovskyi]

Important Errors In The First Edition

Page Error
53In third line of second paragraph, change \theta ||v_1|| to \theta ||v2|| [Larry Lai]
54Second paragraph, third line, change "and swapping the remaining two" to ", swapping the remaining two, and negating one." [Randall Hopper]
84The displayed equation should be S(1,1,-1) \dpdu \cross S(1,1,-1) \dpdv = S(-1,-1,1) \dpdu \cross \dpdv = S(-1,-1,1) n = \ne S(1,1,-1) n [zho]
98In section 3.2.2, line 4, both \theta_{max} should be \phi_{max} [Mark Bolstad]
175First code fragment: missing space between "class" and "InstancePrimitive" [mmp]
192In figure 4.7, the two instances of "NextCrossing" in the figure and the one in the third line of the caption should be "NextCrossingT". [Arek Zimny]
298Footnote, line 1, "low-discrepancy and best-candidate samplers" should be "best-candidate sampler" [mmp]
335Second fragment, delete "/" after "lensSamples" [mmp]
353In Figure 7.37, last line of the caption, change "bricks" to "arches". [mmp]
416The definition of the hemispherical-directional reflectance should not have that 1/pi term. [Stephen Chenney]
430-435The \eta_t in Figure 9.7 and the \omega_t in the specular transmission BTDF should be \eta_o and \omega_o, respectively. Similarly, the SpecularTransmission BxDF implementation should be written to use etao, not etat, Figures 9.9 and 9.10 need to be updated to use \theta_o rather than \theta_t, and various text should be changed to use \theta_o rather than \theta_t. [Stephen Chenney]
431In the denominator of the fourth displayed equation, |\cos \theta_i| should be |\cos \theta_t|. (Though N.B. the 430-435 changes above.) [David Wolff]
433In SpecularTransmission::Sample_f(), (ei*ei)/(et*et) should actually be (et*et)/(ei*ei). (Fortunately, in practice these terms all end up cancelling out, so images shouldn't be changed by this fix.) [Thiago Ize]
442Figure 9.15 is drawn incorrectly: \omega_o and \omega_i should make the same angle with respect to \omega_h, \theta_h. As drawn, \omega_o makes that angle with the normal, rather than \omega_h. [Arek Zimny]
448The normalized microfacet distribution actually should be: "\frac{\sqrt{(e_x+2)(e_y+2)}{2\pi} (\wh \cdot \n)^ ..." [Stephen Chenney]
449The implementation of Anisotropic::D() should be sqrt((ex+2)*(ey+2)) * INV_TWOPI * powf(...) [Stephen Chenney]
497Figure 11.6: Reflection of ray "r" on left should be drawn with dotted line, incident ray "r'" on right should be drawn with dashed line [mmp]
523The last line of code in the third code fragment should be "texel(i-1, 2*s+1, 2*t+1));" [mmp]
565Exercise 11.2: Version 1.2 of the OpenEXR file format supportes tiled image files and includes a utility to create tiled files from untiled EXR files. This makes this exercise somewhat easier. [mmp]
577There shouldn't be a \frac{1}{4\pi} term in equation 12.2, the phase function normalization constraint. [Arek Zimny]
581In the three term equation on the top of this page, the second term after the first equal sign contains an extra "\frac{1}{4 \pi}" that should be removed. Also, a "\sin \theta" is missing in the third term before the "d \theta". [Vincent Pegoraro]
637F(x) in the second line from the top should be f(x). [mmp]
640Footnote, x <= 0 should be x < 0 [mmp]
658Figure 14.12: Coordinates next to filled dot in figure should be (u, 1-u) [mmp]
671Change first displayed match to $\beta = E[F] - \int f(x) dx$. [Shaohua Fan]
672Third line, O(1/N^-1) should be O(N^-1) [Shaohua Fan]
676The multiple importance sampling equation at the bottom of the page is incorrect. It should be (1/n_f) \sum_{i=1}^{n_f} ... + (1/n_g) \sum_{j=1}^{n_g} ... ["fsf"]
684"exponent+1.f" in the "Compute PDF from \omega_i from Blinn distribution" fragment should be "exponent+2.f". Also, add a sentence like "Using the definition of the distribution over the hemisphere from Equation 9.9, we have:" before that fragment to make clear where the 2 pi comes from. [Stephen Chenney]
686Given the aforementioned Anisotropic changes on 448 and 449, the 2.f * M_PI term in the computation of anisotropic_pdf should be deleted. [Stephen Chenney]
689The definition of the hemispherical-directional reflectance should not have that 1/pi term. Also, the M_PI term in the definition of BxDF::rho() should be removed, and the \pi in the equation for the estimator at the very bottom of the page should be deleted. [Stephen Chenney]
697The last sentence on the bottom of the page should be "So p(\theta) = \sin \theta/(1 - \cos \thetamax) and p(\omega) = 1 / (2 \pi (1 - \cos \thetamax))." [Stephen Chenney]
703In the first line of the page, change "multiplication" to "division". Then, in the equation at the top of the page, the right-hand side should be \frac{\cos \theta_o}{r^2}. [Swaminathan Narayanan]
706Figure 15.11 would be better if the radius line "r" connected the middle of the sphere to the point where the tangent line intersects the sphere. [Stephen Chenney]
713Not only is the equation for sampling the Henyey-Greenstein phase function incorrect, but the code implementation is wrong as well. (For more details, see the bug report in the pbrt bug database.) [Kevin Egan, Trevor Thompson]
748The numerator and denominator of the fraction of the first displayed equation should be flipped--i.e. it should be "p_A = p_\w \frac{|\cos \theta_i|}{|| \p[i] - \p[i+1] ||^2}". [Wei-Wei Xu and Shaohua Fan]
777The displayed equation toward the bottom of the page should have |\cos \w_o| in the numerator. [Matthias Zwicker]
850Second fragment, second line, delete "/" before "Block(u)" [mmp]
869First paragraph, 4th line, delete "octree" [mmp]

Minor Errors In The First Edition

Page Error
colophonThird paragraph: "that appears" should be "that appear" [mmp]
notationAdd to index of notation, t(\p, \omega) ray casting function (defined on p. 734). [mmp]
readme.htmIn the Windows section, change cd c:\pbrt\examples to cd c:\pbrt\scenes and change imageview.exe pbrt.exr to imageview.exe simple.exr. Also, this line: exrtotiff pbrt.exr pbrt.tif doesn't work because "exrtotiff" isn't included in the standard install so isn't in the \bin\win32 directory. [David Gould]
xxxi"have generously in suppliyed" should read "have generously supplied". [Cliff Wooley]
11In 5th line of pseudo-code at bottom of page, swap "light_vector" and "eye_vector" to be consistent with usage of \omega_o and \omega_i. [Francis Huynh]
18In second paragraph, line 4, "which is be the focus" should be "which is the focus" [Larry Lai]
54Second paragraph, change "zeroing one of the two components" to "zeroing one of the components". [Leonhard Gruenschloss]
70Section 2.7.4, first equation set, second line, delete comma between z_1 and z_2. [Randall Hopper]
72, 74Missing cross reference in mini-indices to Matrix::Transpose() (page 852) [Leonhard Gruenschloss]
73First equation, "p = a * cos(alpha) = a * (v * a)" should be "p = a * ||v|| * cos(alpha) = a * (v * a)" [Leonhard Gruenschloss]
98In paragraph for section 3.2.2, change "will use" in line 2 to "uses", and change "won't" in line 4 to "doesn't". [mmp]
120A comma is missing in the expression for one of the hyperboloid's partial derivatives; specifically the right hand side of the one for \partial^2 p/\partial u \partial v, before the zero. [Arek Zimny]
142Second paragraph, second line, wrong font is used for ']' in 'f[0]'. [mmp]
204In second to last paragraph, "- 1" after "prims.size()" should also be in code font. [Arek Zimny]
210At the bottom, "sort() depends on the fact that a < b and b < a is only true if a == b" should actually be "sort() depends on the fact that the only time a < b == false and b < a == false will be when a == b". [Brian Budge]
217,218It would be more clear to name the variable "tplane" "tsplit" in order to match usage in the text and figure 4.15. [Nils Thuerey]
2215th paragraph, insert "and" after (1987), before "Amanatides" [mmp]
242In equation 5.2, there shouldn't be 'prime' symbols after the theta or domega symbols. [mmp]
246"The conversion of spherical angles to a direction can be found by" -> "The conversion of a direction $(x,y,z)$ to spherical angles can be found by" [sfan]
250Equation 5.5, top of rightmost term, "d" should be roman font [mmp]
275Delete space after "::" in "Environment Camera Method Definitions" fragment at the top of the page. Then delete one space in each of the following two lines such that the "float"s continue to line up with "const" in the first line. [mmp]
320In "first hundred points of the 2D Hammersley sequence", change "Hammersley" to "Halton", and then in the next sentence, change 'Halton" to "Hammersley" [Leonhard Gruenschloss]
322In second line of text after code chunks, "Zaramba" -> "Zaremba". [Arek Zimny]
426Figure 9.5: thinner lines should be used to denote angles theta', theta''. (Also p.245, F5.11) [mmp]
427In the displayed equation at the bottom of the page, the final delta function should just be $\delta(\phi_i - \phi_r)$. [Nuttapong Chentanez]
431In the displayed equation after equation 9.5, the \omega_t on the left-hand side should be \omega_o. Then, on the right hand side, T(\omega_i, \n) should be T(\omega_o, \n). In the remainder of the sentence after the equation, the same change should be made to the T term and the \omega_i at the end should also be changed to \omega_o. [Thiago Ize]
438In the third line of the "OrenNayar Public Methods" chunk, "OrenNayarR" should be "R". [nirwan]
492In the left hand side of the second displayed equation, the p' variables should be p'_x, p'_y, and p'_z. [Nuttapong Chentanez]
499In 4th line of 2nd paragraph, change "dsty" to "dsdy" [Arek Zimny]
502The assignment in the last line of the fragment at the middle of the page should be "*dtdy = ...", not "*dtdx = ..." [erikdendekker]
539Below bottom displayed math change "average value of the step function in one dimension" to "average value of the step function in two dimensions". [Arek Zimny]
550"dots are is randomly placed" should be "dots are randomly placed" [Wojciech Jarosz]
587Should add "in closed form" to the end of "The DensityRegion cannot implement the VolumeRegion::Tau() method" and change the next sentence ("Therefore....implementations") to something like "However, it can be implemented with Monte Carlo, as is done in Section 15.7.2." [Arek Zimny]
609Third fragment, 4th line, insert 3 spaces before "screenY1" [mmp]
647Second equation from bottom, change \sin^{-1} to \arcsin (be consistent with usage elsewhere.) [mmp]
676, 678Pull in spacing on "f" subscripts (many) [mmp]
681Delete the first sentence of the last paragraph. Then insert "Recall that Blinn's microfacet distribution function is" at the start of the second sentence and add the clause ", where \cos \theta_h..." from the deleted first sentence to the end of the second sentence. [Stephen Chenney]
682The last line of the "Compute sampled half-angle vector..." code fragment should be "if (!SameHemisphere(wo, H)) H.z *= -1.f;" [Kevin Egan]
714At the second line from the bottom, "N d" should be "N / d". [Volodymyr Kachurovskyi]
725In the "Allocate and request samples for sampling one light" fragment, the line "bsdfComponentOffset[0] = sample->Add2D(1);" should instead be "bsdfComponentOffset[0] = sample->Add1D(1):" [Keith Jeffery]
772In the denomenator of the top equation on the page, the left paren ( is incorrectly set as a subscript of p. Furthermore, the first 'p' in the denomenator should be italicized. [mmp]
805Figure 17.2 L_0 should be letter 'o' not zero [mmp]
853Second fragment, delete "Matrix4x4::" [mmp]
857In the second sentence of the first full paragraph, change "The code to the random number generator" to "The code that implements the random number generator". [mmp]
921C.3.4 - In the input files, use "PixelFilter", not "Filter" [humper]
927The type of the kd-tree "emptybonus" parameter should be "float" and not "integer" [Jim Price]
935"volumegrid" is missing from the list of supplied volume plugins [Jim Price]
1005Under "ray tracing", "early, phototypical example" should be "early, prototypical example". [Craig Kolb]
1018In the third bullet list on the page, "export" should be in typewriter font (2x) [mmp]

 
 

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