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8 Jul 2024 12:19:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Soft Shadows?  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 8 Feb 2015 23:14:49
Message: <54d83439$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/8/2015 7:57 PM, Zeger Knaepen wrote:
>> I didn't mean a physically correct point light, you are right that a
>> 'real'
>> point light won't give soft shadows. I did in fact mean the fake
>> method used by
>> most other render engines when dealing with point lights in 3D
>> software, to give
>> you extra artistic control and ease of use and still end up with a
>> nice result.
>> But thankfully the area light method seems to be a good workaround.
>
> I don't see how it's a workaround.


Workaround for a fluorescent bulb maybe.


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