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2 Aug 2024 08:18:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity algorithm explainations  
From: Warp
Date: 24 Nov 2004 05:08:28
Message: <41a45d9c@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> That's really an incorrect use (though common). Radiosity is a problem, 
> not an algorithm or technique...the word literally refers to the rate at 
> which energy leaves a surface. I personally refuse to say "global 
> diffuse illumination" when "radiosity" is a perfectly good word for the 
> same thing.

  But then you risk causing confusion and misunderstanding.

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