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  Re: Diffuse albedo and radiosity  
From: clipka
Date: 10 Jul 2012 08:06:26
Message: <4ffc1ac2$1@news.povray.org>
Am 10.07.2012 13:57, schrieb James Holsenback:

>> I didn't think about it when I implemented the albedo for diffuse, but
>> it won't play nice with radiosity. Because radiosity actually doesn't
>> support brilliance, and always computes diffuse illumination from other
>> objects as if the surface had brilliance 1.0.
>
> what about having albedo for diffuse ignored if radiosity is used ...
> I've ran into this problem  as well. Thanks to the OP for bringing this
> up, I had forgotten about it working on other higher priority stuff. If
> a change is not possible perhaps a "Note" in the docs will suit until a
> better idea comes along ;-)

A change is definitely possible; I'll probably go for ignoring the 
albedo correction factor only for radiosity computations.


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