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  Re: SSLT: why not just use media?  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 12 May 2009 23:25:37
Message: <4a0a3db0@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> So what can SSLT do that media cannot?
> 
> Try the "subsurface.pov" sample scene. Look at the shadow cast onto the
> checkered plane by the candle and chrome sphere: Do you see the light
> "bleeding" into the shadow cast on the bright slab?
> 
> This is not area lights. This is not light filtering through the candle.
> This is light transported below the slab's surface - genuine Subsurface
> Light Transport.
> 
> *This* is what SSLT can do that media cannot model.
> 
> 
> A few other factors that might be worth mentioning:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> So to sum it all up, I guess these are reason enough to add SSLT.

I suggest putting all this in the wiki!


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