Simulação digital de iluminação: uma abordagem didática do mapeamento de fótons e cáusticas.

Abstract

This work consists on a didactic approach to the digital simulation of global illumination, more specifically the one that refers to the generation of caustics (light patterns refracted/reflected from an object). By doing those experiments, and recognizing the discourses that explains the techniques of necessary simulations for that, like global illumination and photon mapping, the limits and possibilities that the computer-graphics resources offer are identified, considering an educational context. It is a study in which the main objective is to identify the knowledge structuration that develops the configuration of didactic situations about the generation of caustic effects, possible to be executed on the worked context.