Physically Based Rendering

Links

Please send us a note at authors@pbrt.org if you have used pbrt in a paper or in a course, or if you have written a piece of software that works with pbrt that we should link to from here.

Forks of pbrt

luxrender is the first fork of pbrt, now that it has been open sourced under the GPL. The goals of luxrender are physical correctness, a strong community of users and developers, and good support for exporting from apps like blender.
A modified version of pbrt 1.02 with support for bidirectional pathtracing has been posted by MLJack.

Exporters and converters to the pbrt scene file format

Maya to pbrt exporter: Mark Colbert has written a Maya plugin that exports Maya scenes to pbrt and renders them inside Maya. (See his screenshots page.)

Papers that have made use of pbrt

Reordering for Cache Conscious Photon Mapping, Joshua Steinhurst, Greg Coombe, and Anselmo Lastra, Graphics Interface 2005.
Water Drops on Surfaces, Huamin Wang, Peter J. Mucha, and Greg Turk, SIGGRAPH 2005
All-Frequency Interactive Relighting of Translucent Objects with Single and Multiple Scattering, Rui Wang, John Tran, and David Luebke, SIGGRAPH 2005
A Frequency Analysis of Light Transport, Frédo Durand, Nicolas Holzschuch, Cyril Soler, Eric Chan, and François X. Sillion, SIGGRAPH 2005
Animating Sand as a Fluid, Yongning Zhu and Robert Bridson, SIGGRAPH 2005
KD-Tree Acceleration Structures for a GPU Raytracer, Tim Foley and Jeremy Sugerman, Graphics Hardware 2005.
Metropolis Photon Sampling with Optional User Guidance, Shaohua Fan, Stephen Chenney and Yu-Chi Lai, Eurographics Symposium on Rendering, 2005.
Using the Physically-based Rendering Toolkit for Medical Reconstruction, Steven Bergner, Eric Dagenais, Torsten Möller, Anna Celle, 2005 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Puerto Rico, October 2005.
Photorealistic Rendering of Rain Streaks, K. Garg and S. K. Nayar, SIGGRAPH 2006.
A Compact Factored Representation of Heterogeneous Subsurface Scattering, Pieter Peers, Karl vom Berge, Wojciech Matusik, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Jason Lawrence, Szymon Rusinkiewicz and Philip Dutré, SIGGRAPH 2006.
Simulating Caustics due to Liquid-Solid Interface Menisci, Eric Bourque, Jean-Francois Dufort, Michelle Laprade, and Pierre Poulin Proc. Eurographics Workshop on Natural Phenomena, Sept. 2006.
Real-Time Refraction Through Deformable Objects, Manuel M. Oliveria and Maicon Brauwers, proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, 2007.
Implicit Visibility and Antiradiance for Interactive Global Illumination, Carsten Dachsbacher, Marc Stamminger, George Drettakis, and Frédo Durand, SIGGRAPH 2007.
A Precomputed Polynomial Representation for Interactive BRDF Editing, Aner Ben-Artzi, Kevin Egan, Frédo Durand, Ravi Ramamoorthi, to appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (2007-2008).
Interactive Editing and Modeling of Bidirectional Texture Functions, Jan Kautz, Solomon Boulos, and Frédo Durand, SIGGRAPH 2007.

Courses that are using or have used the book

Stanford cs348b, 2000 and rendering competition.
Stanford cs348b, 2001 and rendering competition.
Stanford cs348b, 2002 and rendering competition.
UVA CS447/647, 2003, and rendering competition.
University of Texas at Austin, CS 395T.
University of Calgary, CPSC 591/691.
Stanford cs348b, 2003 and rendering competition.
Stanford cs348b, 2004 and rendering competition.
University of Texas at Austin, CS 384G.
University of Central Florida, CAP 6701, Fall 2004
Ohio State, CIS 782, Fall 2004
Simon Fraser University, Cmpt 461/770, Fall 2004
University of Wisconsin - Madison, CS 779, Spring 2005
University of Central Florida, CAP 5725, Spring 2005

UVA CS551/651, Spring 2005.
UIUC CS419: Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics, Spring 2005.
Stanford cs348b, 2005, and rendering competition.
University of Utah, CS 7650, 2005
National Taiwan University, Digital Image Synthesis, Fall 2005
Ohio State University, CS782, Advanced 3D Image Generation, Fall 2005
Dalhouse University, CSCI 6604: Advanced Computer Graphics, Winter 2006.
University of Texas, Austin, CS 395T, Advanced Image Synthesis Techniques, Winter 2006.
Instituto Nacional De Matemática Pura e Aplicada, 3D Graphics Systems: Advanced Image Synthesis, Spring 2006
Stanford cs348b, 2006 and rendering competition.
UVA CS561: Image Synthesis, 2007
Stanford cs348b, 2007, and rendering competition.

Utilities and other resources