Light Transport

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The problem of computing how radiance moves through a scene from emitters to the camera, accounting for every path it can take on the way.

• supersedescorrects · extends
• classifiesspecializes · part-of
• substitutes forapproximates · alternative-to
• depends onrequires · validates

Colour is the family; a dashed line is the second member of it.

Referenced by

• part-ofRadiance is a subtopic of this
• part-ofReflection is a subtopic of this
• part-ofRefraction is a subtopic of this
• part-ofThe Rendering Equation is a subtopic of this
• part-ofScattering is a subtopic of this

References

• Background — Light transport theory on Wikipedia