Yeah, you are right. The sky does not correspond
to the direct light hitting the paperweights. On the
other hand, the intensity of the bright caustics is
not too extreme. These are close models of two
paperweights I have. They concentrate light with
great intensity. They've burned wooden tables and
melted the top of a television. On a bright afternoon,
when you look right into the bright caustic area it
hurts your eyes.


"Dave Bates" <dab### [at] msncom> wrote in message
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> Harold,
>      that's neat I like that.. And I think I've figured out photons as
well.
>     My question, don't the Caustics seem a little extreme..
>     I mean behind the scene it seems to be a cloudy day, but the Caustics
> from the paperweights act like it's extremly sunny..
>
>     Maybe I'm missing something here.. :)
> "Harold Baize" <bai### [at] itsaucsfedu> wrote in message
> news:3ce5395b@news.povray.org...
> >
> > Took Thomas Lake's advice and ran it with photons. This version
> > has radiosity,  dispersion, and caustics. The Pentium 4 1.4Ghz
> > machine was down to 3 PPS :-)
> >
> > Harold
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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