Global Illumination

Global Illumination (GI) is a strategy in computer graphics to add a certain degree of realism.  Several approaches exist to achieve such a visual effect for computer-generated imagery. The most physically accurate approach is through conventional raytracing. It produces similar realistic results by trading-off time and computational-resource intensive, making them unsuitable for real-time usage. For more real-time usage scenarios, a set of faster algorithms exists that utilize post-processing on top of rasterization rather than performing ray-tracing.