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Path tracing the Cook-Torrance BRDF

-- Sorry for the long post, but I prefer to do that way because "Devil is in the details." :) I am writing a path tracer from the scratch and it is working nicely for perfectly diffuse (Lambertian) ...
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Normal Artifacts On Grazing Angles

I am currently experiencing a very obvious artifact that occurs when looking at objects on very grazing angles Here is a picture of the artifact: I noticed that the issue was coming from my ...
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How to properly combine the diffuse and specular terms?

As far as I understand, in a BRDF the Fresnel term is telling us the probability for a photon to be reflected or refracted when it hits a surface. The reflected photons will contribute to the ...
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Trying to implement Microfacet BRDF but my result images are wrong

I am trying to implement microfacet BRDF model. I am reading Sebastien Lagarde's slides. I implemented formulas to my code but i think result image is wrong. Yellow is base color of material. ...
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Fresnel and specular colour

I'm trying to implement Cook-Torrance BRDF and had previously bookmarked this question as it looked very well thought out. Going through it, I'm confused about the Fresnel equation. The author has the ...
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