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  Re: ray of light line laser with projector  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 15 Feb 2012 22:07:24
Message: <4f3c72ec$1@news.povray.org>
CRIS wrote:
> Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
>> CRIS wrote:
>>
>>> Rather about my second question, maybe I explained bad, if i put in the
>>> spotlight source : 'color Red * 1' i don't see the light on the internal bars
>>> but if i put (for example) 'color Red * 200'  i see the red line on the internal
>>> bars.
>> your light source, bars and projection object all end on x = 0,
>> this coincidence is likely to get you into numerical issues. Also,
>> at a grazing angle diffuse illumination is close to 0 but becomes
>> visible if you boost the light power by 200.

> There is a way to leave falloff and tightness to 0 so that also the reflection
> work correctly? I posted a code. ( i commented spotlight now). Thanks a lot.

Actually I misinterpreted the falloff value, it should
be equal to radius for a sharp edge, not 0. So if you set
falloff 80 you again get the reflections.


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