Hi, I am looking for info on real world ligths, preverabaly in relation
to POV-ray.

For example, how do I place lights in an object, and have them put out as
much light as a reall 60w light bulb?  or a 500w halogen spotlight?

And then, renderthem in an outdoor/indoor sceen ith a single light acting
as the sun etc etc...

Have I been clear?

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"Rob Brown-Bayliss" <on_### [at] clearnetnz> wrote in message
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> Hi, I am looking for info on real world ligths, preverabaly in relation
> to POV-ray.
>
> For example, how do I place lights in an object, and have them put out as
> much light as a reall 60w light bulb?  or a 500w halogen spotlight?
>
> And then, renderthem in an outdoor/indoor sceen ith a single light acting
> as the sun etc etc...

Well, the light sources are much like the coordinate units in that it's all
relative.  There has been a units.inc made before and I think possibly a
lumens.inc or similar thing might exist (I sure thought there was such a
thing anyway).

All you'd need to do really is base it all on candlepower or lumens, for
example, and use fade_power.  Although that might not be entirely feasible
because POV-Ray isn't thoroughly able to mimic reality, FAIK.

I tried searching for this and all I came up with is the thread at p.t.s-f
with colors for various sources and a little talk besides:
http://news.povray.org/39c3f0b2@news.povray.org
I didn't find anything POV related on the 'net.

Bob H.

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