Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

Overview

• Getting started
• Cloning the repository
• Choosing variants
• Compiling the system
• Scene file format
• Differences to Mitsuba 0.6
• Frequently asked questions
• Release notes

Python interface

• Introduction
• Parsing XML code
• Rendering a scene
• Custom applications

Inverse rendering

• Introduction
• Differentiable rendering
• More advanced examples
• Integration with PyTorch

Developer guide

• Introduction
• Variants in C++
• Plugins & Macros
• Testing
• Debugging
• Building the documentation
• Polarization

Advanced topics

• Custom plugins in Python

Plugin reference

• Plugin reference
• Shapes
• BSDFs
• Phase functions
• Emitters
• Sensors
• Textures
• Spectra
• Integrators
• Samplers
• Films
• Reconstruction filters

API reference

• Introduction
• Core API Reference
• Render API Reference
• Python API Reference

Miscellaneous

• Bibliography