Light Transport and the Rendering Equation

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1997
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Thursday, May 1
Handout #21

Table of contents:

• Introduction
  • The goal of rendering
  • The radiative heat transfer (a.k.a. light transport) approximation
  • Assumptions of the light transport approximation
• The rendering equation
  • Three-point transport formulation
  • Neumann series solutions
  • Some well-known truncated series
  • Solutions based on discretization
• From transport theory to radiometry