Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> fidos wrote:
>   So you basically do the exact same thing that the current radiosity
> code does, but without the optimizations? (The current radiosity method
> *uses* the monte-carlo method, with optimizations.)
Everything is solve at the rendering time (no pretrace for radiosity). It is the
integration of the different light paths from the eye to the emissive lights
that produce the image (no shadow ray, fong models, etc.).
>
>   I really fail to see the advantage.
The main advantage is that the image is more accurate. Moreover, the radiosity,
costic, soft shadow and antialising is build in without any parameter tuning.
The main disavantage is the cpu cost and the residual noise in the picture.

Regards,
Fidos

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