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2 Sep 2024 22:19:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photon patch and spotlights?  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 20 Jun 1999 00:34:55
Message: <376C6E9F.79161A08@Kopp.com>
I just looked at the source code... you're right.  I thought I had that
working... now that I think about it, I did but I made a change and must
have broke it.  All these bugs.  :-(

Hey... at least my bugs don't give people on the net access to your
local hard drive (like those 3 fixes for IE5).  ;-)

-Nathan

Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> I think I have found a bug in the photon mapping patch: It seems that a
> spotlight shoots photons at the center of the object instead of in the
> direction of the spotlight. I have made a scene which uses a spotlight
> and a simulated spotlight(point light inside CSG object) to illustrate
> the problem, I will post it to povray.text.scene-files if you want.
> Sorry if this is a known thing...


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