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1 Aug 2024 18:28:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: White gas  
From: William Peska
Date: 4 Jun 2005 06:48:09
Message: <42a186e9@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> You can use scattering media in radiosity scenes without problems and 
> scattering media is taken into account by radiosity when you use 'media 
> on'.  The only limitation is that for the media simulation the diffuse 
> lighting is not taken into account.

This limitation can be inacceptable for scenes which contain mainly/only 
diffuse lighting.

> Doing this would not be completely impossible but it would be quite 
> different from how radiosity works on surfaces and increase in memory 
> use and calculation time would be enormeous.

Maybe there is a resource effective way to do that.

William


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