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Contents<br />
1 Introduction 1<br />
1.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />
1.2 Believable vs. Correct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />
1.3 Applications <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physically</strong> <strong>Based</strong> Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
1.3.1 Virtual Prototyping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
1.3.2 Architecture and Lighting Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
1.3.3 Medical Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
1.3.4 Safety Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
1.4 Thesis Contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<br />
1.5 Thesis Outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
2 Related Work 6<br />
2.1 Visual Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
2.1.1 The Original Cornell Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
2.1.2 Recent developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
2.2 Experimental Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
2.2.1 Improved Cornell Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
2.2.2 Color Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
2.2.3 Scanning the Cornell Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
2.2.4 Model <strong>of</strong> an Office Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />
2.2.5 Charge-coupled Device (CCD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
2.2.6 Evaluation <strong>of</strong> Four Daylighting S<strong>of</strong>tware Programs . . . . 20<br />
2.2.7 Validation <strong>of</strong> Daylight Simulations using Radiance . . . . 20<br />
2.2.8 Model <strong>of</strong> the Atrium at the University <strong>of</strong> Aizu . . . . . . . 22<br />
2.2.9 Component Case Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
2.3 Analytical Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
2.3.1 Scenes With a Constant Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27<br />
2.3.2 A Representative Set <strong>of</strong> Test Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
2.4 Combined Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />
2.4.1 Comparison <strong>of</strong> several Rendering Systems . . . . . . . . 29<br />
2.4.2 A Multistage Validation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
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