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13 Aug 2024 05:50:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Balcony sans scattering media  
From: Tek
Date: 1 May 2003 18:51:59
Message: <3eb1a50f$1@news.povray.org>
"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
news: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.

Surely it's more of a multiplying force? so things viewed through negative
absorption will have their colour increased by it, multiplicitavely. i.e. black
things will stay black which they won't with emission.

It's a nice effect in any case :)

--
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


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