Bob Hughes <per### [at] aolcom?subject=pov-news:> wrote:
: The contribution of illumination from the objects themselves in the 2nd
: rendering is rather artificial looking but otherwise shows that a recursion
: of 2 really ups the radiosity.  Which leads me to ask, did you do a
: recursion of only 1 with the lighting?

  Of course not. The whole idea with the third image was to compare it to
the second one, so it uses recursion level 2 as well. However, I had to
reduce the diffuse value of the objects to get the same brightness, but
that's not a surprise.

  By the way, the shadows around the objects in the recursion level 1 image
may look cool, but I think they don't correspond to reality and are in fact
an artifact caused by the unrealistically low recursion level.
  Of course sometimes an unrealistic effect can look artistically better
than the physically accurate result.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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