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2 Aug 2024 06:15:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sphere over checkered plane, with area_illumination  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 19 Jan 2008 13:36:18
Message: <47924322$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   Yes, it should be basically the same as with a grid of point lights.
> Speed comes from the fact that shadow tests are much faster than would
> be with the point lights.

Cool! Actually, it just occurred to me that the functionality
should be quite similar to tgq's lightdome macro. Both light dome
and area_light would seem to be special cases of some "grid_light"
supporting multiple grid shapes and individual light colors ;)


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