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15 Aug 2024 20:18:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: [brazil] Athene WIP  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 29 Apr 2002 12:29:31
Message: <3ccd74eb@news.povray.org>
"Jan Walzer" <jan### [at] lzernet> wrote in message news:3ccd735e@news.povray.org...
> "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote :
> > It's certainly tricky to work out what they've done with the light. It says
> > "pointlight", but the shape looks more like a spotlight.
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^
>
> interesting, why do you think, it's a spotlight?
> I see currently no argument to state that ... I'm interested
> in the details, why you think it is one ...
>

If you look at the back wall and the ceiling, it seems round with a defined
edge? Ignore the light falling on the statue, and just look at the brightest
light on the back wall/ceiling.

Of course, the same effect could be achieved by placing the pointlight on the
other side of a round window.


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