"jeremy rutman" <jer### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> I am curious if it is possible to use pov to design optical systems such as
> light tubes, parabolic trough concentrators etc. e.g. for alternative energy
> systems.
> Can I either obtain light rays (paths of photons bouncing off mirrors etc.) or
> output final object illumination values into a colormap or grayscale where
> intensity is prop. to color ...perhaps this happens as default behavior?  I
> would need to somehow obtain the relation between color and [insolation or
> watts/m^2].  Anyone done any optical system design with pov? is there another
> opensource that does it?



Note that light and photons in POV do not have a wavelength or polarization, nor
does it support variable indices of refraction, so some optical properties
cannot be reproduced directly.

    -Reactor

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