Current Project

For the first SPP, we will attempt to create a radiosity solver. A radiosity solver is a program which calculates the shadows and shading of a 3-d scene. It takes a list of polygons with colour and lighting information as input, and it outputs a new list of polygons with colour and shading information. The output is fed to a renderer which then uses this colour and shading information to actually render the 3-d scene on a 2-d display. The radiosity solver will be programmed in portable C++. Although this is a very large and technical project, it offers many opportunities for learning new and interesting material.

Meetings
Source Code Archive & Specification
Radiosity Links
Radiosity 101--An Intro to Radiosity
Radiosity 102
People Involved
Log
Epilogue

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