POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Improvement suggestion to 6.10.3 : Re: Improvement suggestion to 6.10.3 Server Time
30 Jul 2024 16:20:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Improvement suggestion to 6.10.3  
From: Warp
Date: 18 Oct 2001 02:50:48
Message: <3bce7bc8@news.povray.org>
ingo <ing### [at] homenl> wrote:
: That would mean we have a real 'soft light'.

  It means that the caustics will simulate a lot better those of an area
light instead of a point light.
  The 'soft light' part is made by the shadow testing routine, which has
little to do with photons (AFAIK).

-- 
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}//                     - Warp -


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