POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.binaries.images: Playing around with spherical harmonics: Re: Playing around with spherical harmonics

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From: clipka
Date: 15 Jul 2012 12:38:27
Message: <5002f203$1@news.povray.org>

Am 15.07.2012 17:54, schrieb nemesis:
> Em 14/07/2012 16:59, clipka escreveu:
>> The moon rendered from an image map (left), and from a 20-th order (400
>> coefficients) spherical harmonics approximation thereof (right) using a
>> patched version of POV-Ray.
>>
>> Looks like I got the basic spherical harmonics math right.
>
> cool!
>
> Does it have any uses besides making textures look smeared beyond
> N64-level?

Yes: Serving as a testbed for the spherical harmonics math ;-)

I hope to use SH for various improvements to radiosity quality in some 
future version of POV-Ray.

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