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  Re: photons and normal problem (~20k png)  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 28 Oct 2001 15:44:26
Message: <3bdc6e2a@news.povray.org>
"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote...
>
> Here is a test scene for the photons and normal problem discussed in
> p.a-u.  I did the 'ior 1' test and the results look quite wrong IMO.
>
> The first picture is with photons, the second without.  The transparent
> object is of course invisible. Scene is attached too.
>
> I remember that Nathan mentioned some problems with brightness in the 'ior
> 1' case in his paper, i doubt this is the same problem though.

Thanks for the scene, Chris.  This short scene will help in locating (and
hopefully solving) the problem.  Of course, it would have been more
appropriate to post it in the beta-test.binaries group.

-Nathan


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