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31 Jul 2024 04:15:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Lights instead of HDR  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 28 May 2010 05:16:33
Message: <4bff89f1$1@news.povray.org>
>H. Karsten  on date 28/05/2010 05:57 wrote:
> With HDR I always have the problem that the light rays spread to much from the
> picture. One of the results then is: No hard, sharp shadows...
>
> If you would make an HDR picture with a chrome-ball from a sunny light
> situation, casting sharp and hard shadows, you won't get a shadow like this in
> your rendering.
>
> So I decided to convert an HDR picture back into light sources that contains the
> right color and intensity coming from the picture.
>
> This picture contains 192 light sources as a hemisphere.
>
> After playing with a view different HDRs, I decided to use one without a sharp
> shadow - it was looking good.
>
> Maybe some other day...
>
> Holger :)
Nice.
Now it remembers me Starwars Empire Troops ;-)
Paolo


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