On 11/8/2012 8:20 AM, clipka wrote:
> A side effect of radiosity is that you /can/ also get illumination from
> a sky sphere or background (this is automatic), and even objects (this
> requires a suitable finish setting; previously this could be done by
> using a non-zero "ambient" finish term, but this was originally just a
> hack and has always been troublesome, so as of POV-Ray 3.7 the new
> "emission" term needs to be used instead).

I'm sure that "under-the-hood" emission probably works differently from
ambient, but from where I'm standing it looks like all they did was
trade one word for another.

Todd

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