Light transport theory

Light transport theory

Light transport theory deals with the mathematics behind calculating the energy transfers between media that affect visibility. This article is currently specific to light transport in rendering processes such as global illumination and HDRI.

Light

Light Transport

The amount of light transported is measured by flux density, that is flux per unit area.

Radiometry

Energy Transfer

Media

Models

Hemisphere

Given a surface S, a hemisphere H can be projected on to S to calculate the amount of incoming and outgoing light . If a point P is selected at random on the surface S, the amount of light incoming and outgoing can be calculated by its projection onto the hemisphere.

Hemicube

The hemicube model works in a similar way that the hemisphere model works, with the exception that a hemicube is projected as opposed to a hemisphere. The similarity is only in concept, the actual calculation done by integration has a different form factor.

Particle

Wave

Equations

Maxwell's Equations

Rendering

"See main article: Rendering (computer graphics)"

Rendering converts a model into an image either by simulating light transport to get physically-based photorealistic images, or by applying some kind of style as in non-photorealistic rendering. The two basic operations in realistic rendering are transport (how much light gets from one place to another) and scattering (how surfaces interact with light).

See also

* Global illumination
* Monte Carlo Method
* Photon mapping
* Radiosity
* Ray tracing (graphics)
* Ray tracing (physics)
* Reyes rendering


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