POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Photons : Re: Photons Server Time
6 Aug 2024 00:16:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photons  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 7 Jul 2002 14:46:33
Message: <chrishuff-621733.13441007072002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3d2887b7$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Dave VanHorn" <dva### [at] cedarnet> wrote:

> What would cause light sources, located on the opposite side of opaque wall,
> to illuminate the near side, as if they are shining through the wall?
> 
> I've been getting this since I switched to the beta version of POV, and put
> in photons to my project.

How thick is this wall? If it is just a shape surface, it is infinitely 
thin, and POV might not be able to decide which side of the surface the 
photons belong to. If you give the wall some actual thickness, this 
might go away.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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