well, I guess that answers my question!!  Thanks a bunch....


-paul

Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> This post is somewhat of a response to Paul Daniel Jones' question at p.a-u.
> but also for the benefit of proving to others it can be done in case like me
> you were skeptical of reflecting light in media.
> 
> Two images in one here, shows a spotlight reflecting off of mirrors placed
> at four corners of a room filled with media.  The upper part is regular
> spotlight (no parallel or cylinder or anything else special), you can see
> the faint hint of it's origin's the thin triangle of slightly brighter
> illumination between the lower two mirrors.
> The second part of this image is a cylindrical spotlight.  Although it's
> obviously very wrong I can't say for sure or not if it might be fixable
> simply by tweaking on parameters.
> Chris Huff pointed out the mediaphot.pov sample scene file that goes with
> MegaPov (if you d/l those from Nathan's site) and using that you can change
> it to reflect light also and then see for yourself it does indeed work.
> Albeit slowly so I'd recommend changing to faster settings such as method 2
> media and a lower sample number, etc.
> 
> Bob
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> 
>  [Image]

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