First material - Light and Lightning Representations

As a start of our research for the theory project, we searched for basic information about the topic. This enabled us to get a better idea of the field we will have to understand and organize for our presentation. Indeed, from these basic concept explanations, we are able to grasp the relations between the concepts related to light and lightning, as well as which of them deserve to be investigated in more details.

Here are a few links that came up during this research, introducing most of the concepts we are going to deal with in the Final presentation:

- lighting & shading: http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~dhouse/courses/401/notes/light-shade.pdf- ray tracing & radiosity: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/year/2009/course/TDA361/2006/TDA360/Ray%20Tracing%20and%20Radiosity.pdf- reflection & refraction definition: http://vallance.chem.ox.ac.uk/pdfs/ReflectionRefraction.pdf- illumination and a little more advanced explanations on lightning representations in general: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/nsp/course/15-462/Spring04/slides/07-lighting.

Furthermore, we will also use Digital Lighting and Rendering (2nd Edition), a book by Jeremy Birn as a basis for our research, as it presents quite exhaustively different representation of light rendering.