CS451: Advanced Computer Graphics
Spring 2008

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Written Exercise 3

Due Thursday, Mar. 27
  1. A diffuse light source with area A emits equal radiance L everywhere across its surface, uniformly in all directions. Find the total power emitted.
  2. A point light source having an intensity of 1 watt per steradian (emitting uniformly in all directions) is 1 meter away from the center of a square patch of surface, of edge length 1 meter. Find the irradiance at the center of the square, and at the corner.




  3. Following are three different versions of the rendering equation. For each one, provide a picture and short phrase or equation describing each term (e.g., I(x' -> x'') is the intensity of light traveling from point x' to point x''). Then, show that the equations are the same by deriving two of them from one of the others.

Submitting

Please submit the answers to these questions in an email to rpw7e@cs.virginia.edu, with "CS451" in the subject line. PDF or Word documents are preferred. Please see the general notes on submitting your assignments, as well as the late policy and the collaboration policy.