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Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers
On your computer graphics journey, you will eventually run into some paper or code mentioning spherical harmonic functions. They are indeed a very useful tool: with just a few coefficients, they allow us to approximate a given function defined on a sphere. This can be very useful for modeling complex lighting.
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Games & GraphicsMath & Algorithms2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 13, 2026 | Introduction to spherical harmonics for graphics programmers by luu | 150 | 29 |
