Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated

sirrandalot

0 HN recommenders · discussed 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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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]

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]

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]