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Interleaving radiosity

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A system of linear equations is in general solved to approximate discretely the illumination function in radiosity computation. To improve the radiosity solution, a method that performs shooting and gathering in an interleaving manner is proposed in the paper. Besides, a criterion has been set up and tested for choosing object elements used in the gathering operation, and a criterion is established to quantify the solution errors by taking into account more reasonably of the human perception of the radiosity solution. Experimental results show that the method proposed has nice performance in improving the radiosity solution.

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, P.R. China

    Enhua Wu

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China

    Wenping Wang

  3. Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, P.R. China

    Enhua Wu

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.69873044 and No.60033010) and the Grant of the University of Macau (RG029/00-01S/WEH/FST).

WU Enhua graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970 and received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK in 1984. Now he is a professor of Institute of Software, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Macau.

WANG Wenping joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Hong Kong University in 1993 after he received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Alberta, Canada. Now he is an associate professor of CSIS at HKU.

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Wu, E., Wang, W. Interleaving radiosity. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 17, 1–8 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02949819

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