POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Stranger than fiction : Re: Stranger than fiction Server Time
6 Sep 2024 21:20:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stranger than fiction  
From: Bill Pragnell
Date: 3 Dec 2008 16:49:43
Message: <4936fef7$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Highlights as POV-Ray defines them is a sort of short cut.
> 
> Right. This is basically what I thought. ;-)
> 
> Doesn't that mean that, in the real world, the hilights should be the 
> shape of whatever luminous object is creating them? (The real world 
> doesn't have point-lights.)

Aye. With additional deformation due to the shape of the surface, of course.


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