Global illumination (part II)

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1998
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Tuesday, May 19
Handout #31

Table of contents:

• Overview of the radiosity method
• Energy balance for differential patches
  • Energy arriving at a differential patch
  • Energy reflected from a differential patch
  • Energy balance equation for a differential patch
• Energy balance for finite patches
  • Discretization
  • The radiosity equation
• Solving radiosity systems
  • Matrix formulation
  • Properties of these systems
  • Solution methods
  • Display

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