POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : True Diffraction : Re: True Diffraction Server Time
29 Jul 2024 00:36:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: True Diffraction  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 11 Feb 1999 13:30:24
Message: <36C32204.9488C681@Kopp.com>
Ken wrote:
> 
> 
>   Does this take into account color temperature as measured in kelvins ?
> 

Probably not.  The code does an RGB->HSV conversion, uses the hue as
an estimate of wavelength, and then uses one of DSW's routines to find
the new IOR for that wavelength.  It's all kind of faked (not real
physics, AFAIK).

-Nathan


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