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  Re: This is another "free" unbiased engine: Indigo Render  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 27 Oct 2007 12:53:22
Message: <47236d02@news.povray.org>
"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:47234bd4$1@news.povray.org...
> Gilles Tran wrote:
>
> > The problem being that doing equivalent scenes in POV-Ray (particularly
> > interior scenes) is, from a practical point of view, impossible. Light
> > sources in POV-Ray are much too primitive for that, there's no support
for
> > true area lights or good-looking blurred reflections and while there are
> > situations where it's more or less possible to simulate this (using
various
> > tricks), in most cases it just doesn't work.
>
> Wait... since when does POV not have "true" area lights?

Since always. Area lights are implemented as arrays of point lights


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