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28 Aug 2025 18:28:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Light beam won't refract from outside media container  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 25 Aug 2025 14:02:56
Message: <68aca550@news.povray.org>
On 8/25/25 13:29, William F Pokorny wrote:
> Yes! There should be some refraction/refection contributions looking 
> into the top of the prism coming from the media photons outside the 
> prism. We can get those back by using 'hollow on' - as you originally 
> did - for the prism while still using 'media_interaction off' with the 
> light source. See the larger of the attached images.

Apologies. I grabbed the wrong image for the larger one mentioned 
above... Hopefully the correct one is now attached.

Bill P.


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