1. A method, including: identifying at a cloud network including a server computer one or more scenes to be rendered at a client device; identifying at the server computer of the cloud network indirect lighting associated with the one or more scenes; and performing at the server computer of the cloud network a computation of the indirect lighting utilizing voxels representing indirect irradiance for the one or more scenes as a directionally varying, low-dimensional quantity in a sparse hierarchical spatial partition; and sending data associated with the computation from the server computer of the cloud network to the client device to be used for rendering at the client device, including streaming the voxels to the client device for decoding thereof and use in rendering the one or more scenes.