POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : Sharp edges to illumination : Re: Sharp edges to illumination Server Time
5 Sep 2024 18:17:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sharp edges to illumination  
From: Warp
Date: 27 Oct 2000 07:01:58
Message: <39f960a6@news.povray.org>
Ron Parker <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote:
: Not true.  The best workaround you proposed still had some problems to be
: ironed out, and the conversation died before that could happen.

  Sorry :)

:  I did like the "no-self-shadow" idea though.

  Sometimes self-shadowing is essential. This solution works only for
convex objects and for non-convex objects which are positioned so that
they don't cast shadows on themselves.
  However, a coffee cup that doesn't cast a shadow on itself looks quite
unnatural.

-- 
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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