POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Calculating the View Factor?: Re: Calculating the View Factor?

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 24 Oct 2002 11:06:28
Message: <3DB80C74.F5D91A94@gmx.de>


> 
> Hi,
> is it possible to calculate the view factor for all objects? I want to
> calculate the "radiation-heat-transfer" from one object to another.
> Thanks, Fabian

This has nothing to do with POV-Ray and raytracing but the only
practicable way i know of calculating view factors for arbitrary
geometries is the FEM based approach and since shapes in POV-Ray are not
triangle based in general there isn't any easy way of doing this.

Christoph

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