In article <3e0e4bc9$2@news.povray.org>,
 "Gilles Tran" <git### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:

> Hmm, it looks that you haven't seen what's going on in p.b.i these days.

I'm on a modem connection, so I haven't kept caught up.


> Come on, give it a try, you'll see the advantage by yourself :-) (and I
> didn't believe it before I was given the patch). With HDR, we now have
> POV-Ray images virtually impossible to tell from actual photographs. See
> JRG's watch pic for instance.

But it is still less accurate than radiosity could be, as far as I can 
tell. Why use a high dynamic range environment map instead of sampling 
the actual environment? Speed? The ability to use real-world samples 
instead of coding a background?

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