Hi,

I was just experimenting with using a dome of low powered point lights
instead of radiosity, and here is the resulting image.

The small image shows the placement of the light grid.

Unfortunately, I placed the lights using a couple of #while loops, and this
leads to more lights being grouped together directly above the scene. Anyone
know how to code a geodesic dome kind of thing, so the lights are evenly
spaced? The code should easily allow for using a small number of lights for
test renders, and then upping the number of iterations (?) for final
renders.

I quite like the effect anyway, although even 100% jpeg is unkind to the
smooth areas.

Andy Cocker

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