Oh, I misunderstood your post. I thought you were saying
that zero ambient was fudging, but you were actually saying
>0 is fudging. Sorry.

HB

"Arthur Flint" <mra### [at] chesapeakenet> wrote in message
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> I think you missed the point. The real world of space is not
> filled with good images: too many harsh shadows,too much contrast.
> To make a picture that we might think of as pleasing, we have to
> use unreal situations. So the use of ambient >0 is not a reflection
> of true conditions in space, but helps to set the mood for the image.
> Call it artistic licence, call it setting the tone, cal it romanticizing
> space, it is as the artist wanted.
>
> "Harold Baize" <bai### [at] itsaucsfedu> wrote in
> news:3bcb290f$1@news.povray.org:
>
> >
> > I think it is not "fudging". Ambient should be almost zero in
> > space because there is no atmosphere. Ambient is actually
> > a fudge itself, if I understand it correctly (and that is likely not
> > the case), it is sort of a poor approximation of global lighting.
> > In the case of space there ought not be any.
> >
> > Harold
> >

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