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Tracing Spherical harmonics and how Weta used them in production

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A way to approximate complex lighting in ultra realistic renders.

All SH lighting techniques involve replacing parts of standard lighting equations with spherical functions that have been projected into frequency space using the spherical harmonics as a basis.

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4162/slides/spherical-harmonic-lighting.pdf

 

Spherical harmonics as used at Weta Digital

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/the-science-of-spherical-harmonics-at-weta-digital/

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