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  Re: old chess scene modified again  
From: clipka
Date: 5 Dec 2016 09:19:48
Message: <58457784$1@news.povray.org>
Am 05.12.2016 um 13:33 schrieb omniverse:

> Sounds like I was under the wrong impression, thinking already dark areas would
> get darker still. I just figured that would be how it would be, as though
> illumination drops. Ultimately to zero. I had thought in terms of a light fade
> for radiosity, of sorts. Like a shadow + dark color = darker shadow, or
> something along those lines of thinking.
> 
> So this means the current way radiosity works is only to brighten upward from a
> certain threshold (the actual pigment color, or lack of any) and never go lower?

The lower threshold is actually the direct brightness from conventional
light sources. In full shadow, that would be zero.

But normally there's barely a crevice where radiosity-based illumination
doesn't find a way in.


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