In Part 1 you saw how the shadow root sits directly below the light. I created a shadow by tracing light lines, intersecting them with shadow lines. The points of intersection created the perimeter of the object’s shadow.
With a simple light source such as a lamp or flame, it’s relatively simple to plot the shadow root on the floor.
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No, this isn’t some bizarre type of tuber found growing in the Yuyu realm. Though there’s probably a real word for it somewhere, the shadow root is a term I invented that describes the source of shadows in a scene.
This will be a 3-part article covering some mildly technical aspects of adding shadows to your scene using basic ray tracing and perspective techniques. If you don’t know anything about perspective, you may find some of the following article confusing, but really it’s just basics.
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