de.grogra.ray.light
Interface LightProcessor

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultLightProcessor

public interface LightProcessor

Interface that encapsulates the specific light calculation. It has the return all light/shadow ray that directly or indirectly illuminates a specific intersection point.

Author:

Micha

Method Summary

int	getLightRays(Ray view, IntersectionDescription desc, RayList rays) Adds lights/shadow rays that illuminalte the specified intersection point.
void	prepareLightProcessor(RTScene scene, IntersectionProcessor intersectionProcessor)

Method Detail

getLightRays

int getLightRays(Ray view,
                 IntersectionDescription desc,
                 RayList rays)

Adds lights/shadow rays that illuminalte the specified intersection point.

Parameters:

view -

desc - description object that specifies the intersection point

rays - all determined rays are added to this object

Returns:

number of rays that are added to the rays object

prepareLightProcessor

void prepareLightProcessor(RTScene scene,
                           IntersectionProcessor intersectionProcessor)