Questions tagged [area]
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Area Lights in Path Tracing
I have been following the scratchapixel ray tracing tutorials online which have been great at explaining the theory behind everything & how to implement it. However, I reached the point where I want to implement Area Lights but I am clueless on how…
Arjan Singh
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Path tracing with Next event estimation and area lights auto occlusion
I am working my way through my first path tracer and I am currently designing how to deal with area lights. I have two questions:
Each object in my scene can have a Light attached to it, this is how I represent Area Lights. Given this I have two…
jackten
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Compute area (not surface area) and perimeter of a mesh
I'm currently researching how to compute geometric properties of architectural shapes based on their 3D meshes, and am stuck for some time on the area and perimeter calculations.
First, the area: assuming that I have the proportions set right, if,…
Liordino Neto
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