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From: Bob Hughes
Date: 18 Aug 2000 17:29:05
Message: <399daaa1@news.povray.org>
"ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:399DA14A.C6BC0F3B@yahoo.com...
| what if you use a cylindrical spotlight with parallel light rays.  the
| reason is that in a projector, the bulb is so big in relation to the
| film that i'm pretty sure it acts like parallel rays and not a point
| source.

Good idea, I think you're probably right.  Just wouldn't work at all for
this then since the glass doesn't affect it at all unfortunately.  Would be
a great thing if POV-Ray could also do optics simulation.

Bob


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