4.562 Citrohan House/Governor's Palace VRay Rendering

Rendering and Animation with VRay: Image samples

4.562 Instructor : Prof. Takehiko Nagakura
Original: 2011.11.05 Last modified : 2021.09.25
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Governor's Palace at Chandigarh (Le Corbusier, 1950-65)
Citrohan House (Le Corbusier, 1929)

Software (Model: AutoCAD, Rendering: 3DS Max, Vray plugin)

Daylight and sky illumination. Floor uses reflection with Glossiness.

Displacement mapping

Glossiness/Fresnel

Rendering engine
Primary: Irradiance
Secondary: Brute Force
No Caching.
The sampling points on the wall change frame by frame and cause jittering artifacts.

Rendering engine
Primary: Irradiance
Secondary: Brute Force
Irradiance map of the first frame is cached.
When the animation is played, no jittering artifacts happen but portions of the wall and ceiling not visible in the first frame show wrong illumination.

Rendering engine
Primary: Irradiance
Secondary: Brute Force
Irradiance map of the camera path is cached. (Cach was rendered by running the animation path first, and then frame images were rendered in the second path.)
Rendering seems appropriate. (Sky is added in the background.)
The blotchness on the wall could be reduced by using a high quality preset at the cost of rendering time.

Daylight and sky illumination. Floor uses reflection with Glossiness.

Displacement mapping

Glossiness/Fresnel

Rendering engine Primary: Irradiance Secondary: Brute Force No Caching. The sampling points on the wall change frame by frame and cause jittering artifacts.

Rendering engine Primary: Irradiance Secondary: Brute Force Irradiance map of the first frame is cached. When the animation is played, no jittering artifacts happen but portions of the wall and ceiling not visible in the first frame show wrong illumination.

Rendering engine Primary: Irradiance Secondary: Brute Force Irradiance map of the camera path is cached. (Cach was rendered by running the animation path first, and then frame images were rendered in the second path.) Rendering seems appropriate. (Sky is added in the background.) The blotchness on the wall could be reduced by using a high quality preset at the cost of rendering time.