differentiable-rendering
3 free lessons tagged differentiable-rendering across Computer Science. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
Inverse Rendering in Practice
What differentiable rendering is actually used for, how it relates to NeRF and Gaussian splatting, and the four failure modes that make inverse rendering harder than the optimisation loop suggests.
Making Differentiable Rendering Affordable
Correct gradients are useless if computing them exhausts memory. Radiative backpropagation, path replay backpropagation's constant-memory trick, and why differentiable renderers needed their own compiler.
The Discontinuity Problem
Differentiating a renderer is easy until geometry moves. Why silhouettes break naive automatic differentiation, and the three families of solutions: edge sampling, reparameterization, and warped-area methods.