I tried to render a car but couldn't get the desired reflection. It seems
like POV-Ray doesn't use the Fresnel equation to compute reflection and
transmission intensities according to the angle between incident ray and
surface normal. It would be a nice, if it did in the next version. Maybe by
some "fresnel" keyword in the "finish" statement.

Thanks
Roy

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In article <3995b8d2@news.povray.org>, "Roy Schulz" <roy### [at] gmxde> 
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> I tried to render a car but couldn't get the desired reflection. It 
> seems like POV-Ray doesn't use the Fresnel equation to compute 
> reflection and transmission intensities according to the angle 
> between incident ray and surface normal. It would be a nice, if it 
> did in the next version. Maybe by some "fresnel" keyword in the 
> "finish" statement.

There is a patch available which allows this, it is included in MegaPOV, 
available here: http://nathan.kopp.com/patched.htm

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