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31 Jul 2024 12:16:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: radiosity vs. double_illuminate  
From: nemesis
Date: 12 Nov 2007 19:45:00
Message: <web.4738f2d2c65e62dc33977d880@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> It's obvious why you don't see anything: you set "ambient_light 0" in your
> global_settings

and you realize it was intentional, don't you?  The point was to prove that
without any ray sources at all, there's no *raytraced* images.

Anyways, I forgot raytracing works backwards, by shooting rays into the scene
and then, possibly, to light sources.  Indeed, it can still work without light
rays, by just tracing rays to objects with high ambient values.


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