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30 Jul 2024 12:24:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange behaviour of area_light  
From: clipka
Date: 2 Dec 2011 17:43:58
Message: <4ed954ae$1@news.povray.org>
Am 02.12.2011 23:01, schrieb Alain:

> When you have a long and narrow light, the effective fade_power gets
> lower than 2. In a typical room where your distance from the tubes are
> relatively small, a fade_power 1.5 would probably be more realist.
> The fade_power becomes 1 when the lenght of the light becomes very large
> relative to the distance.

A fade_power setting of 2 is perfectly ok in /every/ situation with 
light sources of finite size. Note that the effective fade_power already 
decreases automatically as objects get closer to the light source. This 
effect is governed by fade_distance, which should be set to the light 
source's size, or at least a value somewhere close.


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