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4 Oct 2024 05:18:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Some fun with media / Help with photons  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 17 Apr 1999 02:40:23
Message: <37181E4F.C47213D0@Kopp.com>
Currently, photons are not deposited in media.  I haven't yet implemented this
for a variety of reasons (memory & processor power being the two most
important) but I want to eventually do it.

-Nathan

Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> (Sorry I had accidentally posted this in p.b.utilities... canceled it)
> 
> This is what a voxel would look like on a 3D Hi-Black Trinitron :)
> 
> Source is attached, media02.pov. Also attached is a tweaked version of
> it (media_photons.pov) designed to make use of photon mapping... but
> it doesn't. Can anybody help me? As the light sources are quite
> distant their rays are practically parallel, so I am expecting this
> normal pattern to produce some focused caustics in the scattering
> media... but it doesn't. Why?
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> ---------
> Peter Popov
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>


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