KevinModica / fresnel-examples

Example notebooks for fresnel

Fresnel example notebooks

These jupyter notebooks provide a tutorial for the fresnel visualization software. Static versions are included in fresnel's documentation.

Index

Basic tutorials

Basic tutorials introduce the user to the essential elements fresnel via short examples with extended descriptions. Later example scripts assume that the user is familiar with these concepts and do not to re-introduce them.

• Introduction
• Primitive properties
• Material properties
• Outline materials
• Scene properties
• Lighting setups

Primitives

Demonstrate each of the geometry primitives that you can use to build a fresnel Scene.

• Sphere
• Cylinder
• Convex polyhedron
• Mesh
• Polygon
• Box

Advanced topics

• Multiple geometries
• Devices
• Tracer methods
• Interactive scene view
• Rendering images in matplotlib
• GSD visualization

Prerequisites

These examples use the following python packages:

• fresnel
• GSD
• jupyter
• matplotlib
• pillow

Anaconda users can install these from conda-forge:

conda install -c conda-forge fresnel gsd jupyter matplotlib pillow