POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : media problems : Re: media problems Server Time
2 Sep 2024 04:16:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: media problems  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 18 May 2000 12:46:50
Message: <39241e7a$1@news.povray.org>
Margus Ramst <mar### [at] peakeduee> wrote...
> Nathan Kopp wrote:
> >
> > It's possible.  The speedup works like this:
> >
>
> No, I don't think this is the culprit. The same happens with both constant
and
> non-constant densities, emitting, absorbing and scattering media. The
media is
> opaque to both camera and shadow rays. I'm beginning to think that the
adaptive
> mechanism is broken somehow.

Does it really happen with emitting media?  There was a change made to
extinction/absorption of media method 3, but that shouldn't affect emitting
media.  (There may be some other issues that affect media method 3, though).

-Nathan


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