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14 Aug 2024 01:18:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Object as Light Source  
From: yang444
Date: 11 Apr 1998 13:22:57
Message: <352FA6F1.3E8F75A5@pacbell.net>
Thanks GrimDude.  That works!

I was doubled confused, since I didn't realize that the light_source does not
light up
the object it looks_like.  So, in those instances in which I got the
light_source and
object in the same place, it looked to me as if the light was being blocked by
the
object.

GrimDude wrote:

>   What I have done in the past is to place the light_source at the origin,
> and then use the "looks_like { object }. It then comes out right.
>   Explain it? heh, I wouldn't presume to know how. :)
>
> - Grim

--
Alan


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