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From: Timothy R  Cook
Subject: Odd photons
Date: 16 Oct 2002 11:23:34
Message: <3dad8476@news.povray.org>
Apart from the spiffy colour-changing, notice the straggler blue photons
in upper right coming from...where?  and the spotlight seems to be
refracted where it intersects the reflected beam of light.

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Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Odd photons
Date: 18 Oct 2002 12:34:49
Message: <chrishuff-7349F1.12295218102002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3dad8476@news.povray.org>,
 "Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> Apart from the spiffy colour-changing, notice the straggler blue photons
> in upper right coming from...where? 

Odd...no idea.


> and the spotlight seems to be refracted where it intersects the 
> reflected beam of light.

This I know the answer to...it is just an optical illusion.
The beam is circular in cross section, so the edges are dimmer. The 
brightness of two beams gets added together at the intersection, and 
since it is brighter there, it looks wider. You can more easily see the 
line between beam and no-beam.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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