Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:

> In article <1fkqkvf.knzuo218fc70cN%kaveh@delete_this.focalimage.com>,
>  kav### [at] delete_thisfocalimagecom (Kaveh) wrote:
> 
> > I am not an expert in povray, but you know, it shouldn't be difficult to
> > add in polarization. Not compared to the amazing things it does already!
> 
> It would be very difficult and complex. It would basically require 
> changing the entire way colors are handled, storing information on the
> amount of light of each color at each polarization angle, to do it well
> would probably require using frequency distributions to describe light
> color...building a raytracer from scratch with these features would be
> far easier than adding it to POV.

Well, I said I wasn't an expert. A little knowledge is a dangerous
thing. ;-)

-- 
Kaveh

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