Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> I just stumbled across the fact that glows can be used as lighting in radiosity-only
scenes!
> In the attatched image, there are no light sources.. just glows (approx 120 in each
'string').
> It does take quite a long time to render (approx 1 hour for this image on a 1Ghz
Athlon).
> 
> NOTE: I have post-processed this image to enhance the contrast, as glows can make
the whole
> image appear washed out if they're too bright.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 

Nice, i have made some experiments with glows and radiosity when they were
first introduced in megapov:

http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0013390/pov/pict/glow_test_01.jpg

To avoid brightening the whole scene too much you should modify
'fade_power'.

Christoph

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