How To Install bcd on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bcd in Fedora 36. bcd is Bayesian Collaborative Denoiser for Monte-Carlo Rendering

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bcd on Fedora 36.

What is bcd

BCD allows to denoise images rendered with Monte Carlo path tracing and provided in the form of their samples statistics (average, distribution and covariance of per-pixel color samples). BCD can run in CPU (e.g., renderfarm) or GPU (e.g., desktop) mode. It can be integrated as a library to any Monte Carlo renderer, using the provided sample accumulator to interface the Monte Carlo simulation with the BCD internals, and comes with a graphics user interface for designing interactively the denoising parameters, which can be saved in JSON format and later reused in batch. BCD has been designed for easy integration and low invasiveness in the host renderer, in a high spp context (production rendering). There are at least three ways to integrate BCD in a rendering pipeline, by either * Dumping all samples in a raw file, using the raw2bcd tool to generate the rendering statistics from this file and then running the BCD using the CLI tool. * Exporting the mandatory statistics from the rendering loop in EXR format and running the BCD CLI tool to obtain a denoised image. * Directly integrating the BCD library into the renderer, using the sample accumulator to post samples to BCD during the path tracing and denoising the accumulated values after rendering using the library.

We can use yum or dnf to install bcd on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bcd.

Install bcd on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bcd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bcd

Install bcd on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bcd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bcd

How To Uninstall bcd on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the bcd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bcd

bcd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/74fcb79cb9b92caae81c2071acc725f9968763
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/73e198cbebc4be8b63b2836745b931bad5237f
/usr/lib/libbcdcore.so.0
/usr/lib/libbcdcore.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libbcdio.so.0
/usr/lib/libbcdio.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/bcd
/usr/share/doc/bcd/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bcd
/usr/share/licenses/bcd/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bcd on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bcd on Fedora 36.

What is bcd

BCD allows to denoise images rendered with Monte Carlo path tracing and provided in the form of their samples statistics (average, distribution and covariance of per-pixel color samples). BCD can run in CPU (e.g., renderfarm) or GPU (e.g., desktop) mode. It can be integrated as a library to any Monte Carlo renderer, using the provided sample accumulator to interface the Monte Carlo simulation with the BCD internals, and comes with a graphics user interface for designing interactively the denoising parameters, which can be saved in JSON format and later reused in batch. BCD has been designed for easy integration and low invasiveness in the host renderer, in a high spp context (production rendering). There are at least three ways to integrate BCD in a rendering pipeline, by either * Dumping all samples in a raw file, using the raw2bcd tool to generate the rendering statistics from this file and then running the BCD using the CLI tool. * Exporting the mandatory statistics from the rendering loop in EXR format and running the BCD CLI tool to obtain a denoised image. * Directly integrating the BCD library into the renderer, using the sample accumulator to post samples to BCD during the path tracing and denoising the accumulated values after rendering using the library.

We can use yum or dnf to install bcd on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bcd.

Install bcd on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bcd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bcd

Install bcd on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bcd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bcd

How To Uninstall bcd on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the bcd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bcd

bcd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/24602964230df32ec6f1e17dc159f35152a0d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/61b164eb3c30f198dbcf7f3924078e3c448802
/usr/lib64/libbcdcore.so.0
/usr/lib64/libbcdcore.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libbcdio.so.0
/usr/lib64/libbcdio.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/bcd
/usr/share/doc/bcd/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bcd
/usr/share/licenses/bcd/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bcd on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).