Instancing Render

Lots of airplanes, rendered in Photorealizer. Click to view big (originally rendered at 1920x1080, but Blogger has scaled it down to 1600x900).

I rendered the image above using my instancing and transformations system. There are multiple copies of the same airplane model. I arranged the planes procedurally, giving them translations and rotations and ensuring that they don't overlap.

There are 1272 planes in the scene. Without triangulation, that would have been a total of 100 million polygons. But I had Photorealizer triangulate the model which resulted in a total of 194 million triangles. With or without triangulation, the total number of vertices was 121 million—polygons in a mesh share vertices in Photorealizer.

The scene has a BVH that contains the planes, and the plane has it's own BVH that contains its geometry.

This is one of the first images that I've rendered using my improved transfer curve.

The image is a revised version of an image that I rendered in 2011, which you can see below. I probably prefer the lighting of the old version, the way it's lit by the sun, but I lit the new version differently so I wouldn't have to deal with caustics.

Old version.