Pixar Animation Studios
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2014, 2018)
Reporting Period: 2014
Environmental Metrics
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Numerical instability in light sampling methods at glancing angles, causing visual artifacts in rendered images.
Mitigation Strategies
- Developed a fix leveraging a first-order Taylor approximation to tame the curvature of solid angle measure near zero, mitigating errors in edge cases.