On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:06:23 -0500, Francois Labreque wrote:
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>Ron Parker wrote:
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>> If I were to propose a rule of thumb, I would say ambient and diffuse
>> should be roughly the same number, and that ambient shouldn't be included
>> in the requirement that filter+transmit+reflection+diffuse+specular <= 1.
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>Even though, you hint on it in the next paragraph, you should point out
>that this formula is only valid if you are not using radiosity.

From a purely theoretical standpoint, I fail to see why this should be
the case for objects that don't emit their own light (other than the 
reflection/specular thing.)  Could you elaborate?

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Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
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