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‘Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature
Global illumination
There is a certain amount of confusion surrounding the term ‘global illumination’, but the key to understanding it lies in the first half of the phrase. This refers to the way an object is lit by its surroundings, in effect the global contents of the scene being rendered. This may well seem excessive, but the detail and depth of these images is simply not possible using other methods. Within the umbrella of global illumination lies several ...
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