POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Area Lights : Re: Area Lights Server Time
7 Aug 2024 15:18:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Area Lights  
From: Warp
Date: 23 Aug 2001 10:00:09
Message: <3b850c65@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers <bdc### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
: However, experimentation shows that the four corners are actually
: P-U-V, P+U-V
: P-U+V, P+U+V
: With the center of the rectangle (more or less :) being located at P.

: And so, two sides would have a length of 2*|U| and the other two would have
: 2*|V|.

  Wrong. The corners are located at

P-U/2-V/2, P+U/2-V/2
P-U/2+V/2, P+U/2+V/2

and the length of the sides is U and V.

-- 
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rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
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7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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