In article <web.3e547aa166b09a13fbe3eac40@news.povray.org>,
 "WhiteZebra" <ypo### [at] cogniscienceinccom> wrote:

> I'm trying to code the cornell box but using Photons Mapping instead of
> radiosity. So far, no success. I've got all my photons{} blocs in my
> global, light and objects. The scene is very simple but all I get is
> essentially the same render as with ray-trace only.

This last sentence shows a misunderstanding of how POV works. POV is a 
raytracer, there is no "ray-trace only" mode, it is always raytracing. 
The radiosity algorithm is not a patch subdivision method, it uses 
raytracing to collect samples.

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