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8 Jul 2024 16:11:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help-Instructions to Using Photon Map- Saving and Loading  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 11 Oct 2001 23:24:37
Message: <3bc66275$1@news.povray.org>
"Jong" <jjk### [at] mmewhaackr> wrote...
> First, I'd like to know whether the photon-map is reusable, even when I
> changed the size of the rendered image, or the viewing conditions such as
> camera (with fixed lighting and models).

You can most things.  Avoid changing these:
1) size/location of objects that interact with photons in any way (either
collect them or reflect/refract them)
2) size/brightness of lights that shoot photons
3) textures of objects that reflect or refract photons

Actually, you can change those, but the results will then be unrealistic.

-Nathan


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