Mitsuba v2.2.1

July 27, 2020

• Fix warnings, build and tests on Windows (MSVC)

Mitsuba v2.2.0

July 22, 2020

• Instancing support via shapegroup and instance plugins (#170)
• Various sampler plugins: stratified, multijitter, orthogonal, ldsampler (#187)
• bumpmap BSDF plugin (#201)
• normalmap BSDF plugin
• Raytracing API improvements (#209)
• Differentiable surface interaction (#209)
• Add <path> XML tag (#165)
• BlenderMesh shape plugin
• Projector emitter plugin
• Add support for textured area light sampling
• Add Mesh::eval_parameterization to parameterize the mesh using UV values
• Various bug fixes and other improvements

Mitsuba v2.1.0

May 19, 2020

• Switch to OptiX 7 for GPU ray tracing backend (#88)
• Mesh memory layout redesign (#88)
• Mesh attribute support (#88)
• Custom shape support for OptiX raytracing backend (#135)
• xml.dict_to_xml() for writing XML scene file from Python (#131)

Mitsuba v2.0.1

May 18, 2020

• xml.load_dict() for Mitsuba scene/object construction in Python (#122)
• Scene traversal mechanism enhancement (#108)
• Support premultiplied alpha correctly (#104)
• Spot light plugin (#100)
• Add Blender mesh constructor (40db7be)
• Irradiancemeter sensor plugin (b19985b)
• Radiancemeter sensor plugin (#83)
• Distant emitter plugin (#60)
• Custom shape support for Embree raytracing backend (2c1b63f)
• Add ability to specify Python default variant (4472b55)
• Add pytest -m "not slow" option (4597466)
• Moment integrator and Z-tests (74b2bf6)
• Spatially-varying alpha for roughconductor and roughdielectric (cac8741)
• Various bug fixes and other improvements

Mitsuba v2.0.0

Initial public release