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

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From: Le Forgeron
Date: 24 Oct 2002 11:14:27
Message: <3DB80E6F.6030009@free.fr>

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> 

> 
>>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.
> 


What about using photons and counting ?
No... just a silly thought...

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