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Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aol com> wrote in message
news:37cf3a85@news.povray.org...
> Surely you must know by now that area lights have only a singular
> point source for all purposes besides shadows. Your statement seemed
> to suggest otherwise.
I know that. soft shadows, but hard illumination. In general, it can't
work because the lighting is still hard and a real array of lights will give
multiple phongs not soft illumination. But for this scene, from this
viewing position, the fill light works OK.
> But yes, I would think a white reflector
> (ambient) should be very similar with the added plus of true
> 'area_light' appearance when used with 'radiosity'. I'm thinking you
> may have to go with both however in order to get good shadows too,
> really not sure.
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