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12 Aug 2024 21:20:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It seemed like a good idea at the time  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 23 Jun 2003 15:41:17
Message: <3ef757dd@news.povray.org>
John VanSickle wrote:
> I've found that using two shadowless lights, far off, both at right
> angles to each other & the direction of the main light, does the work of
> radiosity at a small fraction of the computational cost.

Well the one point light that I do have isn't contributing much of
anything radiosity-wise to the scene; I have radiosity on for the
glowing media...that fire there has no actual light sources, just
media with emission of, oh, 1000...?

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

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