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Radiosity Summary
•Assumptions
–Opaque
Lambertian surfaces (ideal diffuse)
–Radiosity
constant across each element
•Radiosity
computation structure
–Break
scene into patches
–Compute
form factors between patches
•Lighting
independent
–Solve
linear radiosity equation
•Viewer
independent
–Render
using standard hardware