"Physically based approaches to rendering started to be seriously considered by graphics researchers in the 1980s. Whitted’s paper (1980) introduced the idea of using ray tracing for global lighting effects, opening the door to accurately simulating the distribution of light in scenes. The rendered i"
"……modern rendering has grown to include ideas from a broad range of disciplines, including physics and astrophysics, astronomy, biology psychology and the study of perception, and pure and applied mathematics. The interdisciplinary nature of rendering is one of the reasons that it is such a fascinat"