{"id":551,"date":"2011-07-14T00:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T22:44:55","slug":"irradiance-caching-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/2011\/07\/irradiance-caching-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Irradiance Caching &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished writing the <a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/07\/irradiance-caching-part-1\/\">next article about the lightmap rendering tech<\/a> that I did for The Witness. This one is about irradiance caching, and in particular I describe how to estimate irradiance gradients when the irradiance is sampled using a hemicube distribution. I&#8217;m afraid the article is a bit too specialized and I suspect it will only be useful to those that are trying to solve this particular problem, but I think it&#8217;s good to have this documented anyway.<\/p>\n<p>This time around we are trying something new and we are cross-posting it on <a href=\"http:\/\/altdevblogaday.com\/2011\/07\/14\/irradiance-caching-part-1\/\">#AltDevBlogADay<\/a>. It seems to me that most of the subscribers to The Witness blog are non-programmers, so this way it may reach a wider audience. Hopefully this will also encourage me to post more regularly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished writing the next article about the lightmap rendering tech that I did for The Witness. This one is about irradiance caching, and in particular I describe how to estimate irradiance gradients when the irradiance is sampled using a hemicube distribution. I&#8217;m afraid the article is a bit too specialized and I suspect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","tag-the-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}