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From: clipka
Date: 15 Dec 2016 02:06:44
Message: <58524104$1@news.povray.org>
Am 15.12.2016 um 07:32 schrieb omniverse:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>
>> It will be difficult to match the experiment exactly, as the aluminum
>> foil is also reflective. The SSLT algorithm can't account for that.
> 
> Okay, had made it reflective and didn't notice obvious changes so that would
> explain why.
> 
> However... what about photons? Wouldn't that interact, bouncing off the foil
> going through the wax?

No; the photons wouldn't even reach the foil - they'd just be deposited
on the surface of the way.

To fully model the wax & aluminium foil experiment, we'd need
full-fledged monte-carlo sapling of scattering media.


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