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Lecture 13: Global Illumination & Path Tracing (43)
rwang0110

It's intriguing to see how light bounces can be modeled by a simple geometric series, as well as the correlation between energy dissipation and convergence of the series.

greeknerd1

So intuitively we are modeling energy dissipation using a geometric series by taking advantage of the fact that light reflected is typically less by some amount than the initial incoming light.

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