Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated

sirrandalot · 1.2M views · 2023-06-20 · 5:25

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Overview

A video showing a virtual camera built in Blender that simulates lenses and film layers using path tracing, to make physically modeled photographs.

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Cited as an example of simulating the full optical chain of a camera in physically based rendering.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2025–2026

Topics

Computer graphics & rendering Animation & visual effects

What people said

UltraSane · 2026-04 · Reference
Reminds me a bit of a guy who created a functional virtual camera in Blender with lenses and film layers. [VIDEO]
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avereveard · 2025-09 · Reference
Related: creating a virtual camera and using blender path tracing to simulate light capture from a camera in virtual space [VIDEO]
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ooterness · 2025-07 · Reference
The opposite extreme: physics-based rendering that models the entire optical chain of a film camera, including the emulsion layers. [VIDEO]
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