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31 Jul 2024 02:18:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Can't get photons to show up in media...  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Mar 2003 12:07:29
Message: <3e623a51@news.povray.org>
Johannes Dahlstrom <sad### [at] tkukoulufi> wrote:
> Photons only work with contained medias. This doesn't seem to be mentioned
> in the docs though... Anyway, it is pretty obvious if you think about it a
> bit, in an infinite media a potentially infinite amount of photons would
> have to be sampled and stored.

  I tried confining the media inside a box (box { -2.1, 2.1 }, with all
hollow etc stuff) without the image changing in any way. No reflected
photons in the media.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -


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