The foundations of photo-realistic rendering: from quantum electrodynamics to Maxwell's equations

  • Authors:
  • David C. Banks;Laith Abu-Raddad

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tennessee;Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington

  • Venue:
  • GVE '07 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Graphics and Visualization in Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Rendering techniques simulate 3D light transport. The typical algorithms only approximate electromagnetic wave interactions. The classical theory of electrodynamics is itself a macroscopic manifestation of the elemental quantum theory of electrodynamics (QED), which describes how individual photons behave. In this paper we explain how QED leads to Maxwell's equations.