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30 Jul 2024 02:19:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: optics and photons  
From: Dan Johnson
Date: 28 Jan 2001 05:54:40
Message: <3A73FBD8.769375BF@hotmail.com>
David Fontaine wrote:

> Dan Johnson wrote:
>
> > But if you use a parabola and a point light to make a parallel light, only the
> > light that bounces off the parabola is parallel, you have to block the rest of
> > the light somehow.
>
> conical spotlight
>
> --
> David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
> My raytracing gallery:  http://davidf.faricy.net/

Looked in documentation don't see it.  Unless you mean the spotlight source, but
that has an umbra, and penumbra.  I don't know how to make that light source act
like a perfect cone light.

Dan Johnson


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