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2 Related Work<br />

2.1 Visual Comparisons<br />

A practicable way <strong>of</strong> verifying a renderer is to compare the results <strong>of</strong> the rendering<br />

process to a real scene. The very first approach in this direction was done in 1975<br />

by Phong [Pho75]. He compared a phong-shaded sphere to a photograph <strong>of</strong> a<br />

real sphere. The two images differ apparently but he did not discuss this fact<br />

any further. As the Phong model is not a physically based global illumination<br />

algorithm, we will not go into detail. Two more representative approaches are<br />

discussed in the following sections.<br />

2.1.1 The Original Cornell Box<br />

Figure 1: A schematic <strong>of</strong> the first Cornell Box setup [GTGB84].<br />

The first approach in this direction was done in 1984 by Goral et al. [GTGB84].<br />

They showed that the radiosity algorithm behaves similar to light propagation in a<br />

real setup <strong>of</strong> the scene. One reason <strong>for</strong> choosing this method was that the rendering<br />

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