Eli Ewok Brody <ewo### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
:     It's obvious an area light - the sun disc isn't a point. The sun is so
: far away, that the light it generates closely aproximates parallel rays,
: though.

  Light rays coming from a light source with a visible area are never
parallel, no matter how far it is.
  It's only when the light source is practically a point light when the
light rays start to be practically parallel. However, the Sun isn't.

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