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From: green@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK (Stuart Green )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Looking for Lighting Simulation packages
Message-ID: <836@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK>
Date: 17 May 89 12:24:46 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK.
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I'm looking for references to any commercial systems for lighting simulation
which use radiosity and/or ray tracing techniques to compute global 
illumination.  I'm familiar with the work on radiosity at Cornell and other
places, but is anyone producing systems which use these algorithms, or are
they precluded by their computational complexity on currently available
hardware ?  If they are being used, then what applications are being
targetted, and what hardware is suitable ?  In particular, has anyone looked
at performing radiosity computations on parallel processors ?

Thanks in advance for any responses; I will summarise and post to the net
if there is sufficient interest.

Stuart.

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