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5 Aug 2024 08:19:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Exclude light  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 15 Oct 2002 10:24:23
Message: <chrishuff-5C6A48.10192915102002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3dac17d4$1@news.povray.org>,
 "hughes, b." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:

> I guess if negative lights were to do as expected of such a thing, 
> though, then they'd actually illuminate shadows, or be a anti-shadow.

Why? Ordinary lights don't darken shadows, they just fail to illuminate 
them.


> But as they are now it does subtract positive color lights and 
> ambience from the scene, except for strange artifacts left in the 
> shadow regions I guess.

What artifacts? Shadowed areas are shadowed from the "antilight" just as 
they are from light.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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