POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Optical Fibers : Re: Optical Fibers Server Time
1 Aug 2024 16:31:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Optical Fibers  
From: Stephen
Date: 2 Aug 2005 09:15:00
Message: <web.42ef70df22ec88d042f5e68e0@news.povray.org>
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't think I can debate you on that, especially since I'm not sure what
> > you meant by "no effect on the image", but never say never.
>
> Sure.  What i meant is that what you see of an optical fibre is the
> light coming out at the end and the light scattered in the fibre.  You
> don't see the actual light transmitted.
>

To put it an other way. The Pov camera is not like a real life camera, it
does not register direct lighting. If you shine a light directly into a
camera with no other object in the scene you will get a black image.


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