"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
> "nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > are you thinking IES profiles for povray?  yep, that would be great.
>
> I agree, IES profiles would be an outstanding addition to the POV toolkit.
>
> There are a huge number of lights already fully profiled and freely available
> online, and the IES profiles are just ASCII files. Here's a format description
> and sample parser in C, if anyone's feeling ambitious toward that end (it /does/
> seem like fun but I don't currently have the time to spare):
>
> http://lumen.iee.put.poznan.pl/kw/iesna.txt
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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> www.McGregorFineArt.com

I manually modified the IES files for my previous use rather than trying to
build a generic parser.

-tgq

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