Rendering
Caustics
Displaying Caustics in the Render Pass
Photons
Photon Mapping
Scene Creation
Lighting
Defining an Emitter
Objects
Defining Transmitters and Receivers
Assigning Materials and Surface Shaders
Producing Caustic Effects with Glass in Softimage XSI
Further Information, References and Relevant Links
Beate's Research - Lighting and Rendering
The University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab
Backwards Ray Tracing: Design and Implementation
Ed Harriss - SoftimageXSI and mental ray Tutorials, Scripts, Tips 'n Tricks, Tools, and many other useful resources.
HighEnd3D - Rapid Caustic Tutorial By Olivier Amrein
SoftImage XSI Homepage
A Look At Caustics By Jeremy Birn
Henrik Wann Jensen's homepage
Rendering Caustics on Non-Lambertian Surfaces, Henrik Wann Jensen
Images with Caustics by Henrik Wann Jensen
ACM Digital Library
SoftImage XSI 1.5 Manuals
Th. Driemeyer, Rendering with Mental Ray, SpringerWienNewYork, 1986-2000
Tregenza, Peter & Loe, David, The Design of Lighting, E & F. N. Spon, 1998
Producing Caustic Effects with Glass in Softimage XSI
Susan Windeatt