MONTE-CARLO RADIOSITY

The fast radiosity-type methods for very complex diffuse environments, introduced herein, present a nearly linear-time solution. The outline d procedures rely on recursive algorithms with stochastic convergence for solving the radiosity equation system. Approximations of gathering and shooting at very low computational cost-rather than the exact mat rix of a single reflection-are used. The efficiency of the methods wil l be increased by applying variance reduction techniques.