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  Re: Colored Neon Lights that are real light sources.  
From: Bill DeWitt
Date: 1 Oct 2001 14:27:03
Message: <3bb8b577@news.povray.org>
"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote :
>
> If you want Neon sign style lettering, then a sphere_sweep in POV 3.5Beta
> filled with media may be what you're after, but you'd have to use an
> obscene number of point lights scattered along the length of yout 'tube'
> to get the lighting effect.

    A properly configured area_light might work for some neon signs, as long
as the neon doesn't have to illuminate something very near the sign. In that
case you need a grid or sweep of real lights.


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