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Radiosity

The incident light metering method can be easily implemented using radiosity as well. During the final gathering step a limited number of scene patches should be replaced by auxiliary light metering patches. These auxiliary patches are perfectly diffuse white patches that are taken into account only during the final gathering step. In this way their radiosity is proportional to the irradiance and these radiosity values can be used for finding the scale factor. Of course, auxiliary patches are not displayed in the final image, they are just used to find the scale factor. Note that the predominantly used diffuse radiosity method does not use radiance values, but radiosity, B, which is tex2html_wrap_inline5565 times radiance. In this case the eq. (7.5) will be:
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and the scale factor will be:
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