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29 Jul 2024 00:35:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Refraction bug(?) this time  
From: Ken
Date: 2 Dec 1998 22:49:14
Message: <3666099E.F39058D8@pacbell.net>
=Bob wrote:

> Here it is.
> The planes refraction apparently jumps over into the sphere, which is shown
> floating halfway in the watery looking plane surface.
> The sphere itself is simply an invisible rgbf 1 pigment, a modest finish
> without any reflection and with no refraction enabled in it.
> The plane does have an ior; and an inverse keyword, which I tried before and
> after the interior statement with the same result.
>
> // Refraction bug?
> // refraction seems to jump into an external object
> // which itself does not have an ior
> // 98.91, bob hughes

Have you stopped to consider that when you use the inverse
keyword on the plane, with your camera located where it is,
the sphere is inside a solid object ( i.e. the plane) ?

Ken Tyler


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