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12 Aug 2024 11:22:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Shadows without Objects  
From: Roland Mas
Date: 17 Feb 1999 13:00:51
Message: <m3soc6cne0.fsf@clodomir.rezel.enst.fr>
PoD <pod### [at] merlinnetau> writes:

> You can create a 'shadow' by using a light_source with a negative
> colour value.  eg. point a spotlight with a colour of rgb -1 at the
> ground and you'll get a dark circle.  As for real shadows from
> invisible objects, sorry no ideas.

Still thinking...

Two light sources...  One coloured +1 is normal, one coloured -1 is
shadowless...  No, that won't work.

And with negative transparency...  Won't work either.

I'm sure the solution is lurking around those two themes.  Just cannot
find it right now.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas


- Genki desu, ture en zinc.


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