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  Re: index of refraction ("ior") fails to influence on _transmitted_ light  
From: Warp
Date: 14 Aug 2007 16:46:37
Message: <46c214ac@news.povray.org>
chefboss <chi### [at] manganese-bluecom> wrote:
> When rendering one of the test-scenes with (Version 3.6.1 (g++ 3.4.1 @
> i686-pc-linux-gnu) there is an obviously non-realistic behaviour:
> Light, transmitted by a glass of given refraction, does not behave correctly
> when projected onto a plane behind the sphere. The refracted light gives
> ever the same pattern, independently of the given "ior".

  What makes you think it's a bug? There's nothing working differently
from how it should be working.
  'caustics' is more or less obsolete. Use 'photons' instead.

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                                                          - Warp


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