=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=E9r=F4me_M=2E_Berger=22?= <jeb### [at] freefr> wrote:
> If you have neither light sources nor ambient then
> you don't get an image, only pure black. This has nothing to do with
> reflections. The bare minimum to get an image is to have some
> ambient light, and then you will get reflections too.

I forgot raytracing works backwards and was assuming the rays needed to trace
the reflections were rays coming from light sources.  From there on, I assumed
when ambient lighting was present, povray automatically created a no_shadow
light_source to trace the scene.  silly me...

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