Two questions:

1. In the MegaPov documentation regarding variable reflection, it states:

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You can make reflection_min less than reflection_max if you want, although
the result is something that doesn't occur in nature.
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Should that read the other way around as the docs indicate that if I'm
looking directly at a plate of glass (for example) I could have no
reflection (reflection_min 0), and if I press my face to the glass and look
at the surface I can get a mirror effect (reflection_max 1) and this would
be reflection_min < reflection_max.

Or am I just misunderstanding the whole thing?

2. Regarding IOR.

Say I am modelling glass, then I would use an IOR of 1.5 which produces the
angular change as light passes into and out of it.
If I want to use blinn highlights, then the example uses an IOR of 20 which
is exceedingly large.  Is this just for the example, or do the blinn
highlights require such a high IOR in reality?

Thanks,
Lee Brown
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