CG Lighting history

[h2o]

ummmm....... 3D lighting, I guess you should find the History of Renderers or Rendering techniques.

I give you some Keywords that you can search in Wiki. eg. Scanline Rendering, Ray Casting, Ray Tracing, Radiosity, Global Illumination.

Another 3D lighting related stuff.......
When 3D software still haven't raytracing yet, we use specular for fake highlight. Later on, we can use raytracing to get the semi-real specular. And now we use HDRI to get the real exposure of specular.

In my pov, lighting is really complex thing that involves hardware, software, physics, maths, compositing.... etc.

Hope my information can help ^^

[AmeretatMusty]

thanks a lot h2o, very useful info.

Ya I agree lighting is a very complex function, I only need some information about the history as im doing my degree research on lighting in 3D, so I need a bit of this.

thanks again :)

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