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  Re: Photon mapping: strange light distribution?  
From: PM 2Ring
Date: 27 Jul 2005 05:10:01
Message: <web.42e74e4a6f6c7df0ef8bd73c0@news.povray.org>
"Artur Rataj" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "PM 2Ring" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> > Light sources in POV are invisible, unless you use the looks_like attribute.
>
> I know, but the lights were in scattering media.

Good point. I haven't done very much with media on this slow old machine, so
I'll have to leave this question for the experts.

> I modeled some symmetric
> things that POVRAY rendered very asymmetric usign photon maps. Especially,
> making the material very reflective can make the photon map rendering in
> POVRAY 3.6 very strange and with unstable results.

Unstable is one way to describe it... frustrating is another. I tried to do
diamonds in fog & gave up in confusion. :(


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