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Veach MIS

Eric Veach's classic test scene designed to demonstrate the importance of Multiple Importance Sampling. Features four plates with varying roughness illuminated by four lights of varying size. Exposes algorithmic differences in how renderers sample difficult light transport paths — a diagnostic tool more than a beauty test.

Vertices

1,200

Faces

1,200

Lights

4 lights: area

Textures

0

Resolution

1920 × 1080

Low
Global IlluminationReflectionsSoft Shadows

Renderer Outputs

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Available Formats

Every format below names the archive it comes from, so a benchmark you run locally reads the same geometry these renders were made from.

Fetch them with the CLI:

renderscope download-scenes --scene veach-mis
Original scene source