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29 Jul 2024 16:20:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: light patterns  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 21 Nov 2001 01:44:52
Message: <3bfb4d64@news.povray.org>
Markus Becker wrote in message <3BFA5465.85FD234B@aicoss.de>...
>It _is_ possible and it is done. It is called crystallography.
>It is used to reconstruct crystals from scattered photons (real
>ones...) But it is not easy and sometimes ambiguous.


The ambiguity doesn't matter for this application.  After all, what's wanted
is *a* pattern that will produce the desired photon scatter, not the one
that *did* produce it.

--
Mark


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