Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Film grain and random light intensity

Randomizing light intensity for each pixel creates some sort of film grain effect that can look cool in some cases. Ray-tracing has this weakness of creating images that so "perfect" that they do not real. Path tracing is amazing but very expensive. I thought that using this randomization technique was pretty good, but it's for you to say if it really is ;-) Here are a few samples: