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  Re: Laser Light Source with Photons...  
From: Reactor
Date: 17 Jul 2008 15:40:00
Message: <web.487f9f80f15fb2b6210497120@news.povray.org>
"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I've been following this post and constructed my own test scene ..... now I
> have a few questions.
>
> In the initial scene, after the light leaves the looks_like object it goes
> through an optical device then hits an object. I instead wanted to see if I
> could get the light beam to bend or deflect with a mirror object. I moved
> the beam destination target object 90 from where it was orginally and placed
> a mirror object, built centered around <0,0,0> then rotate y*45 and
> translated to intercept the light beam and deflect in on to the relocated
> destination object. No Joy! I don't even see the point of light on the dest
> object. Can POV do this? Or have I messed up the geometry of my test scene.
> I've made mirrors before so I just used tried and true settings for the
> mirror texture. I can even see the checked floor in the mirror object. I'm
> out of ideas so any additional insight would be great.
>
> Jim



Povray can do this, but I would like to see your code so we can figure out why
it isn't.

-Reactor


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