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From: Darren New
Date: 1 Aug 2008 11:17:26
Message: <48932906$1@news.povray.org>
Reactor wrote:
> Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the indoors much brighter without
> brightening the outdoors. 

Just as an aside:
"""

density of light that falls on a surface. This is what light
meters measure. For example, average indoor lighting
ranges from 100 to 1,000 lux, and average outdoor
sunlight is about 50,000 lux.
"""

"""

expressed as candelas per square meter of light emitting
surface. [...] For
example, the luminance of a heavily overcast sky is about
1,000 candelas per square meter, and the luminance of
a typical frosted light bulb is about 100,000 candelas
per square meter.
"""

http://www.energybooks.com/pdf/D1150.pdf

There might be a good reason getting this to work takes some extreme 
values. :-)  Eyeballs are pretty amazing devices.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)


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