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From: hucaby@ms.uky.edu (Dave Hucaby)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Looking for Lighting Simulation packages
Keywords: lighting render
Message-ID: <11747@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 23 May 89 19:58:39 GMT
References: <836@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK>
Reply-To: hucaby@ms.uky.edu (Dave Hucaby)
Organization: Univ of Ky Biomedical Image Processing
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In article <836@csisles.Bristol.AC.UK> green@CompSci.Bristol.AC.UK () writes:
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>I'm looking for references to any commercial systems for lighting simulation
>which use radiosity or ray tracing techniques to compute global illumination.

Good timing! The May 1989 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
has a very good article about Akira Fujimoto and his work with photorealistic
rendering and particularly his company's lighting simulation system.
Look on pages 4-10 for the interview and some good pictures.

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