For those of you who don't know what radiosity is.
It's a very intricate style of lighting that simulates real-life
lighting. However, the method I use more closely resembles raycasting.
It'll take a light source and simulate hundreds or
thousands of rays coming from it bouncing off the walls of a room hundreds
of times. In the process, you produce very realistic lighting with
cast shadows and everything that you would want. Radiosity is
sometimes used in 3D rendering programs (not real-time).
In this program, you can actually walk around the room, and take a close look at the soft
shadows that are produced by the 1 million rays cast out across the
room. Yeah, that's right, 1 million. I needed a few more than
I originally expected. The reason I can get away with this is that
the 1 million rays have been calculated on my computer and lightmaps have
been rendered. So all you need are the lightmaps, which is very simple to
implement. The result is a very fast demo of radiosity rendered lighting.
REQUIREMENTS :
P200, 32MB, with a decent video card that supports OpenGL.