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  Re: Are angle dependent reflections based upon actual lighting effects?  
From: Simon de Vet
Date: 31 Jul 1999 09:10:09
Message: <37A2F5B3.B3121B31@istar.ca>
Mike wrote:

> The effect is real.  It's more noticable if you are on higher ground
> looking down on the water.  I put an example in binaries.images.

Better yet, look at a puddle.

When it's in the distance, it is very shiny, like a mirror. You cannot
see the ground beneath the water. As you approach it, and view it at
steeper and steeper angles, the reflection seems to go down, and you can
see through it more easily. When you are directly above the puddle, it
seems to be almost completely transparant, and hardly reflective at all.


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