"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote in message
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> Asuming the object does not absorb light. I recall reading in some
> tutoial or book that diffuse should not be set to 1 as no object diffusely
> reflects
> all light falling on it.
>
> I tend to work by the rule that ambient + diffuse + reflection < 1 unless
> I'm trying
> for some odd effect
>
> Gail

I wondered about that, and consequently left it out. Aren't absorption and
pigment the same? i.e. the colour of an object is the colour of the light
that isn't absorped? Also, IMHO, ambient should be in a separate calc. Dunno
what though.

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