> Can your mod of POV make a low-watt lightbulb, that's on, with
> the camera pointing at the lightsource, and it be realistic?
> (i.e. the tungsten filament glowing and producing the light)
> If it can...why can't POV do that?

No, actually not, because the data for a light source are not
measured that fine to display the effect you want. Thats a
common problem when doing lighting calculations. First,
there is no common data format available to describe this
task and it would be also difficult to do the real measurement.

Martin Hellwig
DIAL GmbH
http://www.dial.de

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