POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : photons : Re: photons Server Time
30 Jul 2024 06:18:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: photons  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 22 Aug 2000 21:53:20
Message: <39a32e90@news.povray.org>
"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote...
> On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:20:45 -0400, Paul Daniel Jones <pdj### [at] psuedu>
> wrote:
>
> >How can i take a light source and reflect the light off a mirror type
> >object and get both beams of light (incident and reflected) to show up
> >in media? I tried using photons and media.... but I cannot seem to get
> >the reflected light to interact with the media....
>
> Wasn't there something about a bug with cylinder lights and
> photons/media? (in MegaPOV, that is)?

Photons from cylinder lights behave if they were came from a spotlight (i.e.
the photon beams are not parallell, but spread out).

-Nathan


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