POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Fade Cutoff : Re: Fade Cutoff Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:22:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fade Cutoff  
From: clipka
Date: 11 Apr 2010 19:44:30
Message: <4bc25ede$1@news.povray.org>
Am 11.04.2010 16:15, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> I just tried complementing fade_power and fade_distance for
> light_sources with an experimental new keyword
>
> fade_cutoff_distance
>
> and then simply ignoring all light_sources which are farther
> away from a given point. The idea is that fading light sources
> may be needlessly considered in the calculation even if they
> are so far away that they no longer contribute noticably.

How about automatically computing this from light brightness and 
adc_bailout?


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