POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Photon range finding : Re: Photon range finding Server Time
2 Sep 2024 22:19:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photon range finding  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 9 Jun 1999 00:07:47
Message: <375DE7F3.CB7E0855@Kopp.com>
I agree that another parameter to tweak is bad, so in the next version, the
computer will automatically choose a good setting for range_divider so you
should not ever have to worry about it again.  :-)

-Nathan

Bob wrote:
> 
> I see, what my mind was doing was thinking of it as a relative thing which a person
> setting the objects and lights up would be adjusting for (like so many other
tweakings).
> This makes more sense to me now as a kind of photon falloff with distance, that is
to
> say the farther a light the less photons counted (less dense). Or am I going off the
> track there? Well, anyway, it's making more and more sense all the time.
>


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