Introduction

If you have thrown a glance at the new features available in Blender since the end of the C-Key system, you might have noticed a new tab in the workspace : the Radiosity tab. Likewise, you might have noticed the Radiosity menu entry in Moonlight Atelier. Maybe you ignored it. You shouldn't have ! If you had take the time to read the files available on blender web site (especially the 1.8 manual Appendix), you would have discovered how realistic radiosity renderings can be !

In this paper, we will introduce the principles of radiosity, in order to understand its interests and limitations. We will not see here the way to obtain radiosity renderings in Blender. If this is what you're looking for, check the tutorials available from www.blender.nl. You can also find interesting document on NaN ftp site ( ftp.blender.nl).

Note : this document is a translation from the french original version. Please excuse my poor english ;)