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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: How does radiosity work?
Keywords: radiosity
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Date: 25 Aug 89 19:27:06 GMT
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In article <273@nap1.cds.wpafb.af.mil> staatsvr@asdcds.UUCP (Vern Staats) writes:
>2)  Not recommended for highly specular images (use ray-tracing).

There have been a number of attempts to combine the two approaches that have
been quite spectacular.  Check out _A Two-Pass Solution to the Rendering
Equation_ by Wallace, Cohen, and Greenberg in Siggraph '87.  The term 
"rendering equation" is after Kajiya's paper in Siggraph '86.

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