radiosity

graphics A method for rendering a view of a

three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting

effects, such as interobject reflections and color bleeding.

Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use

of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of

large scenes.

Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.graphics.

[Is radiosity more accurate than ray tracing? Does it take

more computing power? How does compute time scale with scene

complexity?]

(2003-06-01)