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  Re: photons and normal problem (~20k png)  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 28 Oct 2001 16:44:41
Message: <3bdc7c49@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.

This was a bug.  It should be fixed in the next beta.

-Nathan


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