In article <3f165a0c$1@news.povray.org>, "zorni" <zor### [at] gmxat> 
wrote:

> How can i create a realistic laser line?

What exactly do you mean by "laser line"? A laser beam that is spread 
out to make a long line on a surface, as is used in some laser levels? 
The visible line of scattered light a laser makes when travelling 
through a scattering medium? The radial lines you some times get when 
you take a picture with the laser going into the camera?


> So far I just managed to create it by passing red light through a thin
> gap...the result is not really sufficient.

In what way is this not enough? It's difficult to give a better solution 
when you don't say why the old solution isn't good enough.

Assuming you want a laser beam through a scattering medium: the simplest 
and most accurate way is with photons deposited in scattering media. The 
optics.pov demo scene gives a good example of this. For a laser, it 
would be better to use a parallel cylinder light instead of the 
halogen-like spotlight in that scene, but the technique is the same.

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