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19 Aug 2024 02:27:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: optics revisited  
From: Jérôme M  Berger
Date: 26 Jan 2001 10:37:18
Message: <3A7199A9.9000801@iname.com>
Paul Daniel Jones wrote:

> 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.

	My bet is that the banding comes from the way media is sampled (you're 
using method 2 or 3 aren't you?). You can probably remove it by adding a 
transparent hollow cylinder around the light or a properly placed plane 
to increase the number of samples taken near the light beam...

		Jerome
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