The Algorithm That Made Me Cry

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A researcher shares their emotional journey implementing ray tracing (light transport simulation) from scratch, explaining how a single sample per pixel produces noise but millions of rays eventually yield photorealistic results. The post includes a song about ray tracing and promotes a free master-level course from the Technical University of Vienna covering the physics of light and coding a ray tracer from scratch.

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