25 Oct
2000
25 Oct
'00
5:50 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
suchlike. Fact is, "ray tracing" and various illumination models, and Gouraud and Phong shading and all the rest...were NOT motivated by a desire to model "*physics*."
Yet now we have radiosity. And as you well know, illumination and rendering are just two parts of the process. We still have kinematics, which is probably the most abused part of the process, and the one designed to get plausible physics. Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university