> Somewhat later than the others but I have made my first tests with image
> based lighting using the MLPov hdr image functionality.  Here are two
> results.
> It seems it works very nicely on surfaces with specular reflections.
> Diffuse surfaces require high rad settings and using normals instead of
> real surface geometry looks much more faked than with light sources.

Nice images. I think it's probably possible to improve povray radiosity for
the special case of image lighting (for instance by not using evenly spread
samples, but sending more samples rays towards high intensity area of the
image)

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