Radiosity

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  radiosity
       
           A method for rendering a view of a
          three-dimensional scene that provides realistic lighting
          effects, such as interobject reflections and {color bleeding}.
          Radiosity methods are computationally intense, due to the use


          of linear systems of equations and the spatial complexity of
          large scenes.
       
          {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.graphics}.
       
          [Is radiosity more accurate than {ray tracing}?  Does it take
          more computing power?  How does compute time scale with scene
          complexity?]
       
          (2003-06-01)