Support physical light transport for simulating interference and diffraction (wave optics)

[ghost]

There are some attempts trying to mimic wave optics in a ray tracer.

• A Generalized Ray Formulation For Wave-Optics Rendering
• Towards Practical Physical-Optics Rendering
• Physical Light-Matter Interaction in Hermite-Gauss Space
• A Generic Framework for Physical Light Transport

Is it possible to do similar things in mitsuba?

[njroussel]

Hi @nick008a

AFAIK none of these techniques are implemented in Mitsuba. Implementing them most likely requires a lot of work, this is not something we are pursuing currently.