POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Photon patch : Re: Photon patch Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:15:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photon patch  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 18 Mar 1999 10:13:28
Message: <36f11818.0@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:45:53 -0500, Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote:
>Well, right now photon mapping only does specular and refractive caustic
>lighting, while 'radiosity' does indirect diffuse lighting... so right
>now they are pretty orthogonal features, so you can use them together
>without problems.

I stand corrected.  Photon mapping can do better diffuse interreflection
(IMO) than does POV's "radiosity," though, so I wonder if you're having 
any success with getting that part implemented?


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