POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Fade Cutoff : Re: Fade Cutoff Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:28:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fade Cutoff  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 12 Apr 2010 16:57:46
Message: <4bc3894a$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> How about automatically computing this from light brightness and 
>> adc_bailout?
> 
>   I don't think you can because how visible the lighting is depends on the
> color of the surface being lighted. If the color is very bright, it will be
> more easily visible than if it's dark.

There is also the possibility that the modeling artist wants to model 
the effect of a large quantity of distant light sources.  The bailout 
mechanism will cull some light sources and not others, and in a way that 
could produce visible artifacts.

Regards,
John


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