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13 Aug 2024 05:49:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Balcony sans scattering media  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 1 May 2003 18:11:03
Message: <3eb19b77@news.povray.org>
Slime wrote:
> Is negative absorption the same as emission?

Nope.  Emission simulates the media actually generating
energy, whereas absorption simulates removal of energy;
removal of negative energy isn't exactly the same as
generating energy, it's more of a cancelling force than
an additive force.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean

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