Would you please post your code for this?  I've been trying to get exactly
this effect with no positive results.

Thanks.

Jim


"Andrew" <ast### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Just trying them out for the first time on something more than a sphere.
>
> The shape is made of a dodecahedron and an icosohedron.  count 50000,
> but I think it used more like 5 million.  Dispersion 1.1, with 100
> samples.  One light source (area light up and to the right).  Photons
> took 1.5 hours on a pentium 233, rendering took 40 hours on a P3 500
> that was used for games for at least a third of that time.
>
> I suppose the banding artifacts are down to not using enough photons?
> And does anyone know why the caustics are so bright?  They look a little
> unreal to me.
>
>
>

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