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Lecture 13: Global Illumination & Path Tracing (84)
lwg0320

How would we go about choosing prr? Do people just use trial and error to find an optimal probability rate?

alvin-xu-5745

There is an interesting paper titled "Finding Good Termination Probability for Random-walks" that describes how certain factors play in choosing a good prr, such as the variance of the scene.

prannaypradeep999

Upon doing some brief research, I learned that a common approach to choosing p_rr is to set it proportional to the inverse of the maximum value of the function being integrated (known as the importance function). Other approaches deal with a type of heuristic, often relating to empirical observations.

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