> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> As best I can tell, the algorithm described just sounds like POV-Ray's 
>> radiosity with an infinitely low error_bound. (I.e., always resample.) 
>> But applied to *all* terms, not just diffuse illumination...
>>
> 
> That's the key. I'm not too sure POVRay's radiosity gives an unbiased 
> result even with all settings turned up to the best quality. If there is 
> just one reflective surface in the mix I'm downright sure it does not...
> 
> Even throwing photons in I believe there are situations POV will not 
> handle correctly. Can we do a wall lighting one side of a room because 
> it is itself lit by a light reflecting in a mirror?

"Light shines onto a white diffuse wall. Reflected light from the wall 
creates caustics through a glass sphere. That is diffuse -> Specular 
(caustics). I got the idea for this scene from a document by Henrik Wann 
Jensen describing some difficult test scenes."

http://www.winosi.onlinehome.de/Gallery_t15.htm

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