POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Optic errors : Re: Optic errors Server Time
5 Jul 2024 08:04:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Optic errors  
From: Pieter Kuiper
Date: 10 Jan 1999 10:12:56
Message: <Pieter.Kuiper-ya02408000R1001991618160001@news.povray.org>
In article <36504c4d.0@news.povray.org>, par### [at] my-dejanewscom wrote:

> There are just some things we shouldn't expect 
> from a program whose main purpose is, after all, creating pretty pictures.

I tried to use POV-ray to make a scene for an optics exam question, and
noticed the same thing: shadows are not influenced by the index of
refraction. I understand your explanation why this would be very difficult
to program, but it would be nice to include a remark on this in the
documentation.
-- 
Pie### [at] itnhhse        http://www.hh.se/staff/piku/


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