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Secondly, one <strong>of</strong> the LVS example scenes was rendered with each <strong>of</strong> the sys-<br />

tems, and the results were compared to each other at three sample points. Kho-<br />

dulev and Kopylov found out that two <strong>of</strong> the systems (Specter and Radiance)<br />

yielded quite similar results whereas the result <strong>of</strong> the third system (LVS) was<br />

significantly different from the two others. They deduced that the first two sys-<br />

tems were more accurate than the third one. As no reference measurements or<br />

analytical results <strong>of</strong> this scene were available, the validity <strong>of</strong> this comparison is<br />

questionable.<br />

Thirdly, they did a visual comparison <strong>of</strong> various complex test scenes. Al-<br />

though visual comparisons are not very accurate, some basic knowledge can nev-<br />

ertheless be gathered. For example, the specular reflections in the test images were<br />

considerably different. Furthermore, it could be seen whether a system had prob-<br />

lems with e.g. very thin triangles or special surfaces. With visual comparisons it<br />

is possible to discover noticable weaknesses <strong>of</strong> the systems, but not to determine<br />

the physical accuracy <strong>of</strong> the resulting images.<br />

The result <strong>of</strong> this comparison was that concerning physical accuracy Radiance<br />

per<strong>for</strong>med best, followed by Specter and LVS. The use <strong>of</strong> different verification<br />

methods enhanced the quality <strong>of</strong> this study. The physical accuracy <strong>of</strong> the systems<br />

was evaluated using analytical tests while more general problems were detected<br />

by visually comparing the calculated images.<br />

2.4.2 A Multistage Validation Procedure<br />

Myszkowski and Kunii [MK00] defined a multistage validation procedure in order<br />

to validate an enhanced radiosity algorithm. It consisted <strong>of</strong> three stages: analytical<br />

tests, comparison with measurements results and visual comparisons.<br />

The authors used two different test scenes <strong>for</strong> analytical comparisons: the<br />

interior <strong>of</strong> a diffuse empty cube and the interior <strong>of</strong> a diffuse empty sphere with one<br />

or two orthogonal mirrors inside. The total lighting in a scene can be divided into<br />

the direct and the indirect illumination. For direct illumination, the theoretically<br />

derived result and the simulation matched exactly. For indirect illumination, the<br />

simulated results diverged slightly from the correct solution. This is because the<br />

energy transfer <strong>for</strong> the chosen sample points is either over- or underestimated due<br />

to approximations introduced into the <strong>for</strong>m factor estimates. An additional source<br />

<strong>of</strong> error was the triangulation <strong>of</strong> the sphere, which led to differences between the<br />

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