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This is most likely a simplified answer, but from the way I understand it (in
computer animation terms) , radiosity is a method of calculating the light
reflected off of objects, say light bouncing off of a table, to the wall and
the floor, then reflected back off of those all around the room, thereby giving
the rendering a much more realisitic look than a simple spotlight or omni
light. I'm no expert, but I've read an article or two on this and this is how I
understand it. I found a program some months ago somewhere called RAD386, which
supposedly was a radiosity program, but I have yet to try it. It appears to be
a work in progress the author left for someone else to finish. From what I
read, to run these type of calculations on a PC would make raytracing look like
greased lightining.