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  optics revisited  
From: Paul Daniel Jones
Date: 23 Jan 2001 08:50:16
Message: <3A6D8C61.E10252D7@psu.edu>
I lost a lot of POV scenes whilst formatting my drive (well, duh!!), but
I did have a copy of an old one I did involving reflecting photons. I
was bored last night and decided to work on it. You will notice that
there are a few artifacts here, not from compression, but more from the
way MPOV handles photons ( I am guessing). Specifically, check out the
rays at the last mirror, where they become vertical, I know the banding
effect  _should_  not happen, but it is cool none the less. Are there
plans either in pov 3.5 or mpov v0.7 (?) to allow photons to work with
cylindrical lights? I Find that using a spotlight was ok, but the beam
gets broader due to magnification of the small cone angle etc....

Anywho,I ramble,  enjoy!

-paul

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