Am 26.02.2011 19:14, schrieb Alain:
> I'm also thinking about some variation for orient. My take would be
> orient axis. Here, the area_light would be rotated ONLY around a
> provided axis, making it cylindrical instead of spherical.
> Ex.: orient x

Thought about that, too. With exactly the same syntax, actually. 
Re-orientation would then be limited to rotations about that axis, and 
the "orientation direction" would be that which comes closest to the 
direction towards the illuminated object.

> Another variation: the possibility to punch a hole in the center of the
> array, keeping only the outer elements. With circular, it makes a crown
> shaped light. Less usefull, but there are lights that have such a shape.

Maybe some "volume_light", taking a pattern or df3 file for the 
brightness of sub-regions.

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