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18 May 2024 23:55:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: povray for reflector design?  
From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Date: 29 Mar 2004 08:24:28
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> It can't
> compute the actual light intensities though...you can't get the amount
> of light that hits the tank as a single numeric value, you get a
> picture of the tank. You *could* hack that into the code, but it would
> require poking around in the photon code...it'd be easier to write a

How about - put a camera directly above plane on with rays are reflected, 
plane have diffuse 0, it is lighten only by photons, with some camera 
tweeking (ortographic) You would probably get imge with intensity map


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