"""Neural radiance cache (W9 — neural ray tracing). The same thesis as the physics engine, applied to light transport: keep the exact parts analytic (ray/visibility, next-event direct lighting), learn only the expensive part (multi-bounce indirect transport). A path becomes: L = emitted + direct(analytic NEE) + cache_θ(x, n) where cache_θ is one tiny MLP, tied across the whole scene, that maps a surface point + normal to its outgoing indirect radiance. This replaces the random walk after the first bounce with a single network lookup — Müller et al.'s "Real-time Neural Radiance Caching" idea, distilled to the project's local-projection skeleton. Positional (frequency) encoding is essential: a plain MLP on raw xyz cannot fit the high-frequency shading near contact shadows and the color-bleeding corners. The encoding is the analytic structure we keep; the MLP only learns amplitudes. """ import numpy as np import torch import torch.nn as nn class FreqEncoding(nn.Module): """NeRF-style sin/cos encoding: x -> [x, sin(2^k x), cos(2^k x)]_k.""" def __init__(self, n_freq=6): super().__init__() self.register_buffer("bands", 2.0 ** torch.arange(n_freq) * torch.pi) self.out_mult = 1 + 2 * n_freq def forward(self, x): proj = x[..., None] * self.bands # (...,D,F) enc = torch.cat([torch.sin(proj), torch.cos(proj)], -1) return torch.cat([x, enc.flatten(-2)], -1) class RadianceCache(nn.Module): """Tied MLP: (position, normal) -> outgoing indirect radiance (RGB). Shared across every surface point in the scene (the tied-embedding thesis, now over spatial location instead of mesh element). Output is non-negative (softplus) — radiance cannot be negative, a guard baked into the architecture rather than clamped after the fact. """ def __init__(self, n_freq=6, hidden=96): super().__init__() self.enc = FreqEncoding(n_freq) din = self.enc.out_mult * 3 + 3 # encoded position + raw normal self.net = nn.Sequential( nn.Linear(din, hidden), nn.SiLU(), nn.Linear(hidden, hidden), nn.SiLU(), nn.Linear(hidden, hidden), nn.SiLU(), nn.Linear(hidden, 3), ) def forward(self, pos, nrm): h = torch.cat([self.enc(pos), nrm], -1) return torch.nn.functional.softplus(self.net(h)) def n_params(self): return sum(p.numel() for p in self.parameters())