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Detail: Digital Imaging Technology
Citation: To MATT PHARR, GREG HUMPHREYS and PAT HANRAHAN for their formalization and reference implementation of the concepts behind physically based rendering, as shared in their book "Physically Based Rendering."
Note: Physically based rendering has transformed computer graphics lighting by more accurately simulating materials and lights, allowing digital artists to focus on cinematography rather than the intricacies of rendering. First published in 2004, "Physically Based Rendering" is both a textbook and a complete source-code implementation that has provided a widely adopted practical roadmap for most physically based shading and lighting systems used in film production.
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