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8 Aug 2024 08:14:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: area_light vs pointlight grid  
From: Warp
Date: 2 Aug 2005 05:38:52
Message: <42ef3f2c@news.povray.org>
Slime <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote:
> It would be possible, and perhaps convenient for some, to add a keyword to
> the area light which causes it to behave like a grid of lights for diffuse
> and specular lighting effects. The only advantage of this over an actual
> grid of lights is that not every light has to be sampled for shadows (the
> adaptive sampling can be used), but this is a significant advantage.

  Actually I came up with this exact same idea. It shouldn't be too
difficult to implement either.

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                                                          - Warp


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