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3 Aug 2024 12:20:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV in optics  
From: JC (Exether)
Date: 2 Mar 2004 13:49:03
Message: <4044d71f@news.povray.org>
Gianluca Massaccesi wrote:

> Do you think POV can be used to model optic phenomena?
> In detail I would like to model a light guide: giving the geometri of the
> glass guide, and the source at one end I would like to measure the light
> energy emetted at the second end.
> Do you think it is possible to obtain the value of the energy escaping or
> hitting a surface?
> 
> Thank you for your help

Unfortunately POV-Ray is not designed for physics simulation, it rather 
tries to provide funtionalities that allow artists to make things LOOK 
LIKE real. So you won't be able to do what you want.

JC

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