POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Directional radiosity : Re: Directional radiosity Server Time
18 Aug 2024 02:18:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Directional radiosity  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 10 Jul 2001 09:28:00
Message: <3B4B0357.37629A15@gmx.de>
"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> Here's some experimentation with use of radiosity to imply a "light
> source over there". It uses a large inverted sphere with a gradient
> pigment that is black to the left and white to the right.
> 
> I also have an idea about using a "radiosity light bulb"-- perhaps not
> an original one.   When I tried it, I got just a few big white spots and
> then only after putting ambient to like rgb 200 or something.   Has
> anyone ever had success here;  any suggestions on which radiosity
> parameters to tweak??
> 

Apart from what others suggested, you should also reduce 'adc_bailout',
furthermore you could try to use negative ambient for the dark side, i
never tried that but it could work.

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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