"Soda Hall Radiosity Solution"

The image shows a highly precise fully converged radiosity solution of
the sixth floor of the UC Berkeley Soda Hall building model. The
initial database consists of 143097 surfaces, 98 point light sources
and 65 emitting surfaces. The radiosity computation has been performed
on a 64 processors SGI Origin2000 connected to a SGI InfiniteReality2
rendering pipeline, with the hardware accelerated parallel version of
the Candela radiosity platform. The final solution presented here is
composed of more than 1700000 finite elements and its convergence rate
is of 99% (about 4000 shooting iterations). The textures are not
displayed in order to highlight shadows and inter-reflections
effects. Soda Hall building model courtesy of Carlo Sequin.