Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:
> The documentation for POV 3.5 says "For realistic effects a fade power 
> of 1 to 2 should be used.", then "If you set fade_power in the interior 
> of an object at 1000 or above, a realistic exponential attenuation 
> function will be used"...this is confusing.  Which is the realistic 
> value, 1..2, or 1000+?

  1000 is not a true value. It's a hack. It just turns a different
algorithm on.
  A keyword should have been used instead, but for historic reasons
the hack still seems to be there.

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                                                          - Warp

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