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29 Jul 2024 00:28:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: refraction with multiple transparent objects behind eachother  
From: Tim Attwood
Date: 17 Apr 2007 19:52:59
Message: <46255ddb$1@news.povray.org>
> Are your meshes forming closed shapes? If a mesh forms a shaped surface 
> without any back, any ray entering it get refracted and is considered 
> traveling inside something with an ior of 1.2. Now, it encounter the 
> second mesh, also having an ior of 1.2. So, the ior before and after the 
> surface is the same resulting in no further refraction.

Probably should have inside_vector in the meshes just to be safe, as well.


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