Ol wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I work in thermal engineering, and use the zone method to compute heat
> transfers by radiation. I'm looking for a tool that can compute the
> surface-surface view factors for simple geometries, but also that can take
> a participating media into account. Therefore, I'm also interested in
> volume-surface and volume-volume view factors.
> 
> Is it easy to get these with Pov-Ray?

POV-Ray computes radiation transfer via monte-carlo integration.  Since 
it handles a lot of arbitrarily complicated geometries it should be 
obvious that it does not calculate form factors analytically.  AFAIK all 
  rendering programs that use form factor based methods rely on FEM 
based techniques and compute transfer between simple surface (or volume) 
elements.

Christoph

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