> 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
>

They look the same, but there is a big difference:
When radiosity is turned on, all ambient to turned off.

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