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3 Jul 2024 05:32:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: vectors  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 31 Jan 2004 11:16:03
Message: <0c0te1-bgr.ln1@triton.imagico.de>
Mathieu wrote:
> Ok for the pic, but please where is this listing of  books  (I have not
> found it in the pov documentation).

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/304/

> My goal is just to know  what vector's
> names povray uses to consider (for examples): incident light, the traject
> from point of view to surface point...it's not difficult, but if nobody tell
> me what is exactly behind that names, how could I guess ?
> To sum-up I supose that :
> -Eye is the vector which travels from camera point of view to evaluated
> point.
> -*Light_Source_Ray.direction is the vector which travels from evaluated
> point to light position.
> -REye ?

You should tell which position in the source code exactly you are 
referring to.  Most vectors in the lighting calculation are normalized 
so they only indicate a direction.

Christoph

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