POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Help Creating parabolic mirrors : Re: Help Creating parabolic mirrors Server Time
4 Aug 2024 02:17:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help Creating parabolic mirrors  
From: Warp
Date: 10 Aug 2003 18:10:40
Message: <3f36c2e0@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson <gregj;-)565### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> I hope this isn't a patronizing question, but I fear you may be expecting a
> raytracer to do something it cannot.

  POV-Ray can make perfectly parabolic mirrors and reflect light from
them. It's far from impossible.

-- 
plane{-x+y,-1pigment{bozo color_map{[0rgb x][1rgb x+y]}turbulence 1}}
sphere{0,2pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission 1density{spherical
density_map{[0rgb 0][.5rgb<1,.5>][1rgb 1]}turbulence.9}}}scale
<1,1,3>hollow}text{ttf"timrom""Warp".1,0translate<-1,-.1,2>}//  - Warp -


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