POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Illumination : Re: Illumination Server Time
4 Sep 2024 17:16:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Illumination  
From: Fredrik Eriksson
Date: 5 Feb 2010 12:58:27
Message: <op.u7n1jkv87bxctx@toad.bredbandsbolaget.se>
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:25:45 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
> I hear that organisms such as fireflies use a bioluminescense system  
> which is approximately 98% effecient. I wonder why nobody is researching  
> that...

What makes you think nobody is? Bioluminescence is simply not suitable as  
a replacement for light-bulbs because it is based on chemical and  
biological reactions. Imagine a light-bulb that must be fed, and that  




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FE


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