Textures were hand drawn to achieve the "cartoon" look, while the light-map employed radiosity to create realistic lighting.
Often these views provided by architectural endoscopy are superior to computer renderings due to more realistic lighting and colour rendition.
Director of photography Peter Deming tried to use realistic lighting in the film.
It includes realistic lighting, spotlights, direct sunlight, and partial reflectivity (for reflections in pools and other details).
In some cases the measurement of the light-reflectance-factor of paint or other materials helps to achieve a realistic lighting in the virtugraphy.
Global illumination is a general name for a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes.
This enables a game developers to achieve realistic lighting without having to complicate the scene geometry or resort to expensive real-time shadow volume computations.
He was one of the first directors to eschew the use of footlights in favor of follow spots and realistic lighting.
The SAGE engine also allows games to take place during different times of the day, with realistic lighting and shadow changes, etc.
Nowadays, gamers enjoy ever more complicated graphics - smooth, three-dimensional environments complete with realistic lighting and complex simulations of real-life physics grace our screens.