Hangup on Raytracer Material, BRDF class design

• pbrt-v4

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  Source code to pbrt, the ray tracer described in the forthcoming 4th edition of the "Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation" book.

Regarding the design of materials vs brdfs and how to handle them. Take a look at [Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation](https://www.pbr-book.org/) and its [source code](https://github.com/mmp/pbrt-v4). It's entirely written in C++ and uses an object oriented design for materials.

• mitsuba3

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Yep, so they do resolve it using forward declarations, but there is the [Mitsuba 3](https://github.com/mitsuba-render/mitsuba3) codebase that uses entirely virtual functions and smart pointers (their custom implementation in order to support different rendering modes like GPU rendering).

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