Hi Ben,

> light_source {
>     <?, ?, ?>
>     color ?
>     area_light <?, ?, ?>, <?, ?, ?>, 2, 2
> }
>
> which would just put a pointlight at each corner of the rectangle and
> give you exactly the results you are showing.

Well, actually I *did* use the 8, 16 settings! Here's the code, copy and
pasted right out of the .pov file:

  light_source
  {
    0*x                 // light's position (translated below)
    color <1.0, 1.0, 1.0>*1.7       // light's color
    area_light
    <2, 0, 0> <0, 4, 0> // lights spread out across this distance (x * z)
    8, 16                // total number of lights in grid (4x*4z = 16
lights)
    adaptive 0          // 0,1,2,3...
    #if (letPovrayCheat = true)
      adaptive 5
    #end
    translate <-2, 0, -2>   // <x y z> position of light
  }

Ignore the comments, I never botherd updating them from the Povray defaults.
As you can see, for the first test the Povray area light *did* have 8x16
lights.


John

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