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Why fork PBRT?

April 26, 2017fork

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Why fork PBRT?

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• PBRT is a very robust foundation, so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. It has a clean, extensible design, exceptional documentation (the book) and it’s used in academic environments, so a lot of students know it. • The goals of both project differ: PBRT is an academical research and educational tool, LuxRender is production and artist oriented: which creates differences in a lot of areas. In LuxRender speed optimization, removal of unnecessary features and adding practical ones (exporters, GUI, multithreading, file formats, MLT…) are the main goal. Design choices are made with the final user and artistic efficiency in mind. • Our fork is authorized by the PBRT authors.