POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Media interaction with Spotlights : Re: Media interaction with Spotlights Server Time
6 Aug 2024 04:23:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media interaction with Spotlights  
From: David Bates [{Norman}]
Date: 17 May 2002 21:09:00
Message: <3ce5a9ac$1@news.povray.org>
Think I should try a different method?

I heard 3 was the best, but I Can try 1 .. See what that does..

:)
"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3CE5A23B.85DE1A32@gmx.de...
> I've run into that one some weeks ago.
>
> Its about the intervals and samples and such. In an
> infinite section, how do you calculate intervals?
>
> This is somehow the reason why only spotlight don't
> work, try a fading light... The algorithm of method 3 is,
> as far as I know, an adaptive one. But it can only adapt
> to things "it" sees. If it cannot spot them (intervals in infinity...),
> it cannot adapt properly.
>
> And thus POV probably thinks that the spotlights don't
> add too much...
>
> But that's just my interpretation of things, and I'm, no expert
> on that. Someone just told me that infinite-space and method 3
> don't work very well together on certain occasions.
>


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