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From: clipka
Date: 11 Mar 2013 05:04:11
Message: <513d9e0b$1@news.povray.org>

Am 11.03.2013 02:25, schrieb Christian Froeschlin:
> clipka wrote:
>
>> Absorbing media - yes. Scattering media - no.
>
> What about the extinction part of scattering media? I would
> have expected this to cause some absorption if the background is
> white, but the media itself receives less light to scatter.

That would do the job, too - but why bother with scattering media when 
you can have the same extinction effect with absorbing media?

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