Questions tagged [radiosity]

In the style of trichoplax' question, I want to talk about yet another Wikipedia article: Radiosity (computer graphics). The article states: Radiosity is viewpoint independent, which increases the calculations involved, but makes them useful for…

I feel a bit confused about the use of $F_{ij}$ and $F_{ji}$ in Radiosity papers. $F_{ij}$ should be the fraction of energy leaving patch $i$ that arrives at patch $j$. If you take the original radiosity paper ("Modeling the Interaction of Light…

I thought of this after my radiosity vs ray tracing question. A radiosity algorithm seems to require increased calculations because it's viewpoint independent and therefore, false radiosity was born (at least it's the way it was explained). It is…