POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : IOR : Re: IOR Server Time
16 May 2024 07:35:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: IOR  
From: Alain
Date: 31 Jan 2016 20:13:03
Message: <56aeb11f@news.povray.org>
Le 16-01-30 07:29, clipka a écrit :
> Am 30.01.2016 um 13:18 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> Does an object need to be hollow in order to have an ior?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> No; the "hollow on" keyword is something of a misnomer, and should have
> been named "suppress_media off" or something like that, because the only
> thing it does is to prevent the object from cancelling out any media
> inside it (whether it's the object's own media or that of other objects
> occupying the same space).
>

Another name that looks appropriate would be "contain_media on" or 
"allow_media on"


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