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Point Light Sources

The rays emitted from a point light radially diverge from the source.

A point light source is a fair approximation to a local light source such as a light bulb.

The direction of the light to each point on a surface changes when a point light source is used.
Thus, a normalized vector to the light emitter must be computed for each point that is illuminated.


 


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Pascal Vuylsteker / eScience / Computer Science / ANU
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