Am 13.03.2011 16:20, schrieb Trevor G Quayle:

> For this I am basically tracing a regular set of points around my object.  I
> then use tha point and normal found to run a series of traces at some angle from
> the normal rotated around the normal (in this case I am using 32 traces at 75
> degrees).  I then check for intersection and distance to intersection for all
> traces and then place a sphere on the surface at that location that is coloured
> based on the average distance to intersections.

What kind of average are you using?

Radiosity is using a harmonic mean (the inverse of the arithmetic mean 
of the inverse values) for "closeness" computations, so that very far 
distances don't dominate over the more interesting small distances.

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