POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 07:11:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 7 Nov 2007 16:50:34
Message: <4732332a@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Mmm, I wonder if POV-Ray can do this?
> 
>   Probably not. AFAIK povray has a very specific refraction formula, which
> it converts to total internal reflection when needed. I'm all but certain
> that this formula does not support the concept of negative IOR.

That was more or less my diagnosis, yes. ;-)

It's not something any typical implementation would support unless the 
designer purposely had this in mind, I would think.

Now negative light sources........ ;-)


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