Megapov/POV-Ray 3.5 radiosity

Here you can find a tutorial on using the new radiosity model introduced with Megapov and now also available in POV-Ray 3.5 and later.

Apart from the two parts on radiosity with and without conventional lighting i also wrote a short section on normals and radiosity.

This tutorial is also included in the official POV-Ray 3.5 documentation. The only differences of the version here are the layout and the javascript popups for the parameters.

• Part 1 - radiosity with conventional lighting
• Part 2 - radiosity without conventional lighting
• Appendix A - normals and radiosity
• zip file with all parts for offline reading (725kB)

If you have any suggestions for improvements or find errors, feel free to contact me. If you have problems with POV-Ray and radiosity you can also visit the Povray newsgroups.

Christoph Hormann April 4, 2001