camera

Now you can do entity->hitpoints, but the downside is that every entity, including abstract game components such as the camera also have hitpoints.

Ray tracing is a more generic term that covers rendering techniques which trace rays between a camera and a scene.

If it succeeds, that color is added to the pixel from which the camera path originated.

It uses several rays traced from pixels in the camera bouncing randomly through the scene.

You send rays from the sun, rays from the camera, and try to connect them.

What method do they use to ensure only the rays that have the camera and sun as end points are rendered?

Regarding the camera with hitpoints, is there a name for that class of bug?

If true you return all the gathered energy back to the camera (pixel).

It creates paths between the camera and the light using ray tracing and then it calculates the contribution of that path to the image.

I believe I can safely say we had the toughest camera in any game.

I'd love to go to CM, but then the camera quality is just downright awful because of a lack of TW drivers...

Photon mapping involves a pass algorithm tracing light from light sources into the scene, then a pass (like path tracing) gathering that light back at the camera.

The air strikes did enough damage in a large enough radius that they were quite literally "killing" the camera.

And just like you could take a tv camera and use that for video conferencing in the 60s[1] -- video-the-medium is much more than "TV".

This has its advantages and disadvantages, the biggest advantage being that it's "view independent." Since there's no specular reflection, a surface looks equally bright from any direction, and you don't need to recalculate anything if you move the camera.

I'm left wondering if this idea of going "from the camera to the light sources" is applied in any particular radiosity implementation, and which are it's differences in respecto to the basic form of the algorithm (that would be "from the light sources to the camera").