"Reactor" <rea### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
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> Povray can do this, but I would like to see your code so we can figure out 
> why
> it isn't.
>
> -Reactor

Ok ..... here's the source file photons commented out. Don't need that just 
yet right?

I've attached a reference image. Notice I can see the target in the 
reflective object .... also the reflection of the beam from the source. 
That's not the beam bending but it's reflection. I also commented out the 
optical device as I don't need that yet either. One change I made was the 
intensity of the looks_like light source ..... it WAS a color vector * 1000 
..... I just bumped up the intensity of the scattering media to make up for 
lowering the intensity of the emitter light source. Orginally the light beam 
hitting the target produced an almost white-ish look (highly saturated) 
..... a laser beam should leave a red (or light source) colored point of 
light .... correct?

Thanks
Jim
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global_settings {
  max_trace_level 10
  /*photons {
    count 100000
    autostop 0
    media 1000
    max_trace_level 10
    }*/
  }

background {rgb 0.125}

#declare Camera =  <15,1.5,2.5>;

camera { location Camera look_at <0,0,2.5>}

// makes the lightsource visable
box {<100,100,100>,<-100,0,-100>
  hollow on
  pigment {rgbt 1}
  //photons {pass_through}
  interior {
    media {
      intervals 1
      samples 1 //5,25
      confidence 1 - 1/1000
      variance 1/1000
      ratio 0.9
      scattering {
        1, color rgb 10
        extinction 0.0
        }
      method 3
      aa_threshold 0.1
      aa_level 4
      density {color rgb <1,1,1>}
      }
    }
  }

// reflector yellow border
union {
  box {<-2.5,-0.1,-2.5>, <2.5,0.1,2.5>
    pigment{rgb 1}
    finish{ ambient 0 diffuse 0 reflection 1}
    }
  box {<-2.6,0,-2.6>, <2.6,0,2.6>
    pigment{rgb <1,1,0>}
    finish{ ambient 0.5}
    }
  rotate z*90
  rotate y*315
  //photons {target reflection on refraction on}
  }

// recptor blue border
union {
  box {<-0.1,-1.5,2.5>, <0.1,1.5,-2.5>
    pigment {
      onion scale 0.5
      color_map {
        [0.0 rgb 1]
        [0.35 rgb 1]
        [0.35 rgb 0.1]
        [1.0 rgb 0.1]
        }
      }
    finish{ ambient 0.5 diffuse 0.5 reflection 0 }
    }
  box {<0,-1.6,2.6>, <0,1.6,-2.6> pigment {rgb <0,0,4>}}
  rotate y*90
  //photons {target reflection on refraction on}
  translate <0,0,5>
  }

// optic device
/*sphere  {
  0, 0.5
  pigment{ color rgbt <1,1,1,.95> }
  hollow on
  finish{ ambient 0 diffuse 0 reflection .5  }
  interior{  ior 1.5  }
  //photons {target reflection on refraction on}
  scale <0.01,1,1>
  translate <2.5,0,0>
  }*/

// the emitter
light_source {
  <0,0,0>
  color rgb <1.0000, 0.2900,0.2000>
  cylinder
  tightness 0
  radius .025
  falloff .025
  point_at <-1,0,0>
  fade_distance 500
  fade_power 2
  /*photons {
    reflection on
    refraction off
    }*/
  looks_like {cylinder{0,<0.1,0,0>,0.1 pigment {rgb <4,0,0>}}}
  translate <5,0,0>
  }

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