So I'm trying to implement photon mapping in my ray tracer. I think I've got the basic algorithm down, but I'm missing a few details. Does anyone have links to a good resource with some examples of both the photon shooting and irradiance estimate steps? I'm sure I'm missing some details, and I can't find any really good examples for the tracing step. For instance, when a photon strikes a surface (I'm using Russian Roulette for the tracing step), how do I calculate the color and flux of the stored photon? Then, if the photon is reflected, how do I alter this color and flux (do I even alter the flux of the reflected photon)? Then, in the irradiance estimate stage, when I use the kernel estimator to estimate the density, how to I account for all of the photons within a given radius? Are all photons added equally as long as their incoming direction is above the target surface, or do I scale a photon's contribution by the cosine falloff term? Finally, how do I combine photon mapping for diffuse inter-reflectance with normal whitted style integration for direct illumination estimation? Thanks, Rob