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  Re: Are angle dependent reflections based upon actual lighting effects?  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 11 Aug 1999 02:22:38
Message: <37b116ae@news.povray.org>
Margus Ramst wrote in message <37B0DFCB.4BB5598C@peak.edu.ee>...
>I believe Ken means light only enters the medium and is refracted if it is
not
>reflected. Light can be partially reflected or refracted, but only one of
the
>two can happen on a photon by photon basis.


Take this one up with the quantum physicists -- they will tell you that a
photon can be simultaneously reflected and refracted. :-)

Mark


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