In article <3e24a4da@news.povray.org>,
 "Mark Hanson" <mar### [at] attbicom> wrote:

> No, actually that about did it. I'm rendering a statue in a white room.
> There is one light source illuminating the side of the statue the camera is
> looking at, meaning the other side is dark. HDRI bounces the light off the
> white walls and illuminates (partially) the other side if the statue. Do I
> have it now? That's pretty cool.

No. Radiosity alone does that. HDRI just lets you encode the lighting 
values in a high dynamic range image, so you don't have to calculate it 
during rendering and can use real-world surroundings without having to 
model them.

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