POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Article: Povray's Arealights - Cheap Hack or Not? : Re: Article: Povray's Arealights - Cheap Hack or Not? Server Time
6 Aug 2024 00:16:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Article: Povray's Arealights - Cheap Hack or Not?  
From: Pandora
Date: 29 Aug 2002 10:40:53
Message: <3d6e3275@news.povray.org>
"Pandora" <pan### [at] pandora-softwarecom> wrote in message
news:3d6e26cb@news.povray.org...
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
> news:3d6e221f@news.povray.org...
> > Ben Birdsey <cla### [at] mailcom> wrote:
> > > Why not add these kind of features to the area lights?
> >
> >   Which features?
> >
>
>     Everything that Johns article talks about other than shadow artifacts!


    And maybe photons - a quick test seems to suggest that area_lights and
photons do indeed appear to give pretty good results - though I'm not 100%
sure about the physical 'correctness' of the model...

--
Pandora/Scott Hill/[::O:M:C::]Scorpion
Software Engineer.
http://www.pandora-software.com


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.