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6 Oct 2024 10:03:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Struggling to understand diffuse  
From: Doctor John
Date: 2 Mar 2014 06:06:33
Message: <531310b9@news.povray.org>
On 02/03/14 10:18, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 02/03/2014 11:08, FNH nous fit lire :
>> In the following scene I expect the white sphere to show a hint of red or green
>> across its surface, thrown up by the nearby objects. Can anyone tell me what
>> I've misunderstood about diffuse? Is there something that needs to be added to
>> the sphere's texture?
> 
> Study the scene radiosity/cornell.pov
> 
> (from the delivered scenes with povray)
> 

As Le Forgeron hinted, it's not additions to texture you need, but
radiosity. Add the following into your global_settings:

radiosity{
    pretrace_start 0.04
    pretrace_end 0.01
    count 200
    recursion_limit 3
    nearest_count 10
    error_bound 0.5
}

John
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