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Lecture 11: Radiometry (25)
archshift

Does this imply that the expected irradiance of any given point location on a surface is 0? Similar to the way that the probability of a ray hitting a point in continuous space is 0.

jenzou

To archshift: No; irradiance is defined as a quantity for a surface point. It can be nonzero. This is clarified in the equations on slides 39-41:

https://cs184.eecs.berkeley.edu/sp19/lecture/11-39/radiometry

https://cs184.eecs.berkeley.edu/sp19/lecture/11-40/radiometry

https://cs184.eecs.berkeley.edu/sp19/lecture/11-41/radiometry

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