POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Photons : Re: Photons Server Time
2 Sep 2024 06:20:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Photons  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 5 May 2000 08:59:44
Message: <3912c5c0$1@news.povray.org>
Pabs <pab### [at] hotmailcom> wrote...
> It seems that a good addition to the way MegaPOV shoots photons at
> objects would be to not stop until the object has been hit, in addition
> to what is currently used - the bounding box is covered or a complete
> circle has been shot whithout hitting the object (after the autostop
> level has been reached) - this could eliminate the problem with objects
> with holes in them, possibly eliminate autostop and speedup scenes.

Great idea!  I'll add that now.  So simple... why didn't I think of it?
Thanks!

-Nathan


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