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[Manta] missing 1/pi in area light code?


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  • From: Peter Shirley <shirley@cs.utah.edu>
  • To: manta@sci.utah.edu
  • Subject: [Manta] missing 1/pi in area light code?
  • Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:51:05 -0700
I think the color computed in area light is missing a (1/pi) I think. The test is a reflectance 1.0 sphere
tangent to an area source with color 1.0. This is too bright by about 3x and the code seems to be
missing that as well.  Anyone agree?

Thanks.

Pete



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