[Radiance-general] Radiance vs radiosity

[yijun huang]

Hi Lucio,
 
For a convincing quantitative (also some qualitative) comparison between raytracing (Radiance) and radiosity (Lightscape), the following may be useful:
 
 
Kopylov, E. A., A. B. Khodulev, and V. L. Volevich (1998). Physically Accurate Lighting Simulation in Computer Graphics Software. Moscow, Moscow State University, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences
 
The only caveat is that this study seems (i did not verify) to be funded by INTEGRA (Specter, the Japanese raytrace system) and does not seem to be published in any peer-reviewed system I am familiar with. I can't remember where I found that paper (in fact the citation might be inaccurate) but an earlier version (excluding the 3rd author) is available at http://www.keldysh.ru/pages/cgraph/articles/pals/index.htm
 
A. Khodulev and E. Kopylov, "Physically accurate lighting simulation in computer graphics software," presented at the Sixth International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1-5 July 1996
 
Hope this is helpful.
 
Cheers,
YC Huang
Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
Carnegie Mellon University
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