eli5 how CGI lighting worked before Ray tracing.

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eli5 how CGI lighting worked before Ray tracing.

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Many many years ago, I developed a small program to help visualize 3D surfaces defined by mathematical formulas. The surface was made of “tiles”, and each tile was painted lighter or darker, depending on it’s angle with respect to the angle of the light source.

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