"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Oh, speaking of "the original paper", here's a quote from the sources:
>
> "(This does not work the way that most radiosity programs do, but it
> accomplishes the diffuse interreflection integral the hard way and produces
> similar results. It is CALLED RADIOSITY here TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH AMBIENT
> AND DIFFUSE, which already have well established meanings within POV).
>
> INSPIRED by the paper "A Ray Tracing Solution for Diffuse Interreflection" by
> Ward, Rubinstein, and Clear, in Siggraph '88 proceedings."
>
> (again, emphasis added)
>
>
> So it was never actually intended to be true radiosity, but just a thing that
> did something similar.

The original paper is not about radiosity either.

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