Gianluca Massaccesi wrote:
> Do you think is possible to implement a new function for a light source,
> with rays function of solid angle (seeIES standard). I different words,
> having the possibility of controlling the energy of rays in relation with
> horizontal and vertical angle. It would be very usefull for modelling


If you are working with isosurfaces (and if you don't care about
shadows), then you can calculate how much a light source illuminates
a point on the surface by using functions in SDL. (I.e. you don't
need to patch POV-Ray to do this.)

I once used such a technique to make a few simple images.
Some of them can be found in this thread:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3CXns93A4378303A9Ftorolavkhotmailcom%40204.213.191.226%3E/
or http://tinyurl.com/ytkvh

It should also be possible to do something similar with meshes
made up of (small) triangles.


Tor Olav

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