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30 Jul 2024 18:20:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bug: dispersion_samples affects photon brightness  
From: Kari Kivisalo
Date: 2 Nov 2001 13:15:58
Message: <3BE2E2E7.D76D7F0C@engineer.com>
Lutz-Peter Hooge wrote:
> 
> While playing with Photons and dispersion I noticed that higher
> dispersion_samples also gives brighter refractive photons.
> With dispersion_samples 7 (default) the brightness is equal to photons
> without dispersion, but with for example 14, they are way too bright.
>
> Win98SE, Pov 3.5 beta 6

Same with beta 7 both compiles. This is not on the known bugs list.
I used a different scene with dispersion samples 100:
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~lf/dispersion2.jpg

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Kari Kivisalo


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