Immersive Visualization / IQ-Station Wiki
This site hosts information on virtual reality systems that are geared toward scientific visualization, and as such often toward VR on Linux-based systems. Thus, pages here cover various software (and sometimes hardware) technologies that enable virtual reality operation on Linux.
The original IQ-station effort was to create low-cost (for the time) VR systems making use of 3DTV displays to produce CAVE/Fishtank-style VR displays. That effort pre-dated the rise of the consumer HMD VR systems, however, the realm of midrange-cost large-fishtank systems is still important, and has transitioned from 3DTV-based systems to short-throw projectors.
Rendering
This page references various (mostly modern) rendering techniques, in particular pointing to interesting papers and course work on modern rendering.
Books
Courses
- Cornell's Advanced Rendering course
- 2022-Fall lecture notes
- Radiometry
- Scattering (BRDF | Monte Carlo Integration)
- Monte Carlo Integration (Illumination) for Rendering
- Rendering Equation & Path Tracing
- Simple example implementations of Automatic Differentiation (Jupyter)
- Volume Light Tranport
- Volume Path Tracing
- Metropolis/Markov Chain rendering (slides only)
- Photo Mapping | Subsurface scattering (slides only)
- 2012-Spring lecture notes:
- 2022-Fall lecture notes