Photon Mapping

For this program I attempted to use the photon map implementation from Jensen's book 'Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping'. I had to play with the scaling power of the photons and the number of photons I emitted into the scene. Alot of these pictures get progressively better as I tweak these parameters. My algorithm used only a point light source and not the square light source from the data set. I think this is why the images show the highest concentration of photons off center on the ceiling and towards the back left wall. I plan to better this implementation over the break.

Photons: 8 million, scaled power: I don't remember

Photons: 6 million, scaled power: 9000

Photons: 8 million, scaled power: 5000

Photons: 4 million, scaled power: 7000

Photons: 8 million, scaled power: 7000