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  Re: Spotlights with photons (143KB) (Was: Hotel crime scene)  
From: Ive
Date: 25 Apr 2009 06:28:13
Message: <49f2e5bd@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> Hi again:
> 
>     After Edouard mentioned IES light data files, I tried an experiment I
> envisioned sometime ago: creating a realistic spot fixture and let it
> reflect and refract some photons. The tests with just one spot seemed to
> work nicely, but when I integrated it on the hotel scene with the same
> photon spacing, the results don't look so great...
> 
> -- 
> Jaime
> 

Just to make sure I do understand it right: you did *not* actually use 
IES files, you 'just' did model a realistic spotlight with a refracting 
mirror?

If my memory does serve me well there was (maybe a few years ago) a post 
by someone who did in fact use IES files within POV-Ray. But while I'm 
thinking about it, I have no idea how this could be achieved.

-Ive


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