That's fair. I was merely talking about being able to make better "first guesses." Nowhere near the predictability of a much simpler phenomenon such as radiance

That's fair. I was merely talking about being able to make better "first guesses." Nowhere near the predictability of a much simpler phenomenon such as radiance mapping, of course. And as the article says, >"There were a lot of models that we didn’t even try because we thought they were so bad,...”