POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Back-raytracing for real : Re: Back-raytracing for real Server Time
2 Aug 2024 02:20:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back-raytracing for real  
From: Jellby
Date: 14 May 2005 07:40:12
Message: <213hl2-8i.ln1@badulaque.unex.es>
Among other things, Jellby saw fit to write:

> Here is a physical technique to interchange the roles of a camera and a
> light-source which is reminds me of how POV-Ray calculates the rays.

I've tried implementing this in POV-Ray, see p.b.images: "Dual photography
concept testing".

-- 
light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby


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