Warp nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/08/18 06:59:
> Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
>>> Every time a ray is reflected or refracted
> 
>> or when just passing through a transparent surface as in your case.
> 
>   That's, technically speaking, refraction. The refraction just doesn't
> modify the direction of the ray.
> 
>   (One cool developement idea for povray would be, I think, that if a
> surface has transparency, no reflection and no ior, iow. rays just pass
> through unmodified (just taking the color of the surface), povray could
> skip incrementing the recursion counter. That way you could have and
> indefinite amount of transparent surfaces even if max_trace_level is
> small.)
> 
The same thing could be used for only reflective surfaces. The ray could just 
bounce.


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Alain
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