Is there any way to model a polarizing filter in POVray?  Not the actual
polarization of light, but deviations in ray path due to the 57 degree
angle of the glass fibers?
Any ideas? or am I totally off base (ie. just treat it as a sheet of glass
with an angle of refraction) -- I'm trying to model light passing through
an lcd on a larger scale, so I believe I should try and approximate the
photorefractive effects of the polarizing layers..
Thanks,
Matty U!

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In article <web.3e825f0be67df3ed21c223460@news.povray.org>,
 "Matty U!" <mat### [at] NOSPAMyahoocom> wrote:

> Is there any way to model a polarizing filter in POVray?  Not the actual
> polarization of light, but deviations in ray path due to the 57 degree
> angle of the glass fibers?

Deviations in ray path? Angle of glass fibers? What fibers?


> Any ideas? or am I totally off base (ie. just treat it as a sheet of glass
> with an angle of refraction) -- I'm trying to model light passing through
> an lcd on a larger scale, so I believe I should try and approximate the
> photorefractive effects of the polarizing layers..

You mean index of refraction? POV can model refraction, it can not model 
polarization. This doesn't mean you can't make an illustration of an 
effect with POV, you just can't do the simulation directly. For more 
specific advice, you are going to have to give more information.

Simulating an LCD would require some pretty special-purpose coding, POV 
is not capable of it.

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