Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated
sirrandalot0 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
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A video showing a virtual camera built in Blender that simulates lenses and film layers using path tracing, to make physically modeled photographs.
Cited as an example of simulating the full optical chain of a camera in physically based rendering.
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3 comments from Hacker News
The opposite extreme: physics-based rendering that models the entire optical chain of a film camera, including the emulsion layers. [VIDEO]
Related: creating a virtual camera and using blender path tracing to simulate light capture from a camera in virtual space [VIDEO]
Reminds me a bit of a guy who created a functional virtual camera in Blender with lenses and film layers. [VIDEO]