SUNY Geneseo Department of Mathematics

Cosine Distributions

Wednesday, April 1

Math 384
Spring 2015
Prof. Doug Baldwin

Questions?
Ray Tracer 4 - Glossy Reflection
- Handout
- Lab 1 - derive PDFs for cosine distributions
  - i.e., for X a random variable from [ 0, π/2 ], want P(X=x) ∝ cos^ax = k cos^ax
  - Find k...
Next
- Write a sampler and probability function based on this