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  Re: Glass Rods (and photon problem?)  
From: Alain
Date: 11 May 2005 19:28:01
Message: <42829501$1@news.povray.org>
Steven Pigeon nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-05-11 03:35:
> I have shot about 1Gb of photons, the shadows /
> reflection seems very accurate, but despite dispersion
> (and a rather dispersion_samples setting) the highlights
> do not show color, except when pointing at the camera.
> How so? ( I'm using 3.5 for windows... time to upgrade?)
> 
>     interior
>      {
>       ior 2.0
>       dispersion 1.15
>       dispersion_samples 50
> 
>       fade_distance 5.0
>       fade_power 2.0
> 
>       caustics 2//???
>      }
> 
> 
> 
Why are you using caustics? Normaly, when you sue photons, you don't use caustics. In
fact, you drop 
the fake caustics to replace them with true ones.

Alain


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