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31 Jul 2024 02:21:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Can't get photons to show up in media...  
From: Johannes Dahlstrom
Date: 2 Mar 2003 12:00:14
Message: <web.3e62374e652088bff7cbce3c0@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>  I have been fighting with this simple scene for some time now. I made
>the scene to demonstrate how photons can interact with media so that a
>reflected light beam will show up.
>  For some reason, no matter what I do, it doesn't work.
>  Could someone lighten me up in this issue? How do I get the reflected
>photons to show up in the media?

Photons only work with contained medias. This doesn't seem to be mentioned
in the docs though... Anyway, it is pretty obvious if you think about it a
bit, in an infinite media a potentially infinite amount of photons would
have to be sampled and stored.


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