POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Radiosity : Re: Radiosity Server Time
29 Jul 2024 04:21:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Radiosity  
From: Steve
Date: 5 Feb 1999 00:45:11
Message: <36ba874b.75363062@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 07:13:12 +0300, "Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:

>>
>This rises a question I've often wanted to ask and always forgot to. How
>does Lightscape work? What is radiosity tracing anyway? If it is a method of
>a completely different nature than raytracing should we expect POV to be as
>good as Lightwave in radiosity (or vice-versa: LW be as good in glasses,
>caustics, etc.)?
>
>Peter
>

Lightscape uses a radiosity pass, then a ray-tracing pass.  Viola! 

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Steve


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