POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Dome Array take 2 : Re: Dome Array take 2 Server Time
12 Aug 2024 11:17:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dome Array take 2  
From: Doug Eichenberg
Date: 26 Aug 2003 17:50:08
Message: <3f4bd610$1@news.povray.org>
It's faster than radiosity, at least some of the time... or so says the book
I am reading :P

--
Doug Eichenberg
www.getinfo.net/douge
dou### [at] nlsnet
Stefan Persson <azy### [at] teliacom> wrote in message
news:3f4b6dbf$1@news.povray.org...
> I like :)
>
> Apart from the general experimenting aspect, what's the benefit from
> using the dome lighting array? Is there any decrease in render time?
>
>
> /Stefan
>
> "Doug Eichenberg" <dou### [at] nlsnet> wrote in message
> news:3f4a8f68@news.povray.org...
> > For this test I used one dome array of point lights with shadow casting
> > enabled... this one served as the key light.  Another dome array, with
> > shadows turned off, served as the skylight.  The skylight was at its
> > strongest intensity directly opposite the hotspot on the keylight.  I
> didn't
> > realize I had so many lights involved... something like 386 point light
> > sources :P  Gonna try another one with only a few point lights to see
the
> > difference.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Doug Eichenberg
> > www.getinfo.net/douge
> > dou### [at] nlsnet
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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