Artistic Manipulation of Caustics | Two Minute Papers #48

A caustic is a beautiful phenomenon in nature where curved surfaces reflect or refract light, thereby concentrating it to a relatively small area. Since we, humans are pretty bad at estimating how exactly caustics should look like, one can manipulate them to be more in line with their artistic vision.

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The paper "Stylized Caustics: Progressive Rendering of Animated Caustics" is available here:

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[muraliavarma]

I got into computer graphics because of caustics! It's my favorite light based phenomenon 😊

[_BangDroid_]

I'd love to see this progress into real world applications. Eg. a glass object with caustics that show an image.

[Kram]

Great paper! Now we only need to actually have it implemented in Cycles which, by the way, could really do with an upgrade in the caustics department in general.

[nonhonome]

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[owlredshift]

Oh! Uh, wait what? Where is the info about caustics? They are my favorite natural optical phenomenon. I didn't look at the time of the video, I thought it was going to actually talk about this stuff. I am not into advanced 3d modeling, so the plug for the other channel isn't my jam. I thought you were about to drop some knowledge on us, super blue balled when the video ended, what felt like, exceedingly prematurely. 😞