POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Ring : Re: Ring Server Time
19 Oct 2025 06:34:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ring  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 18 Oct 2025 09:38:56
Message: <68f39870$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2025-10-17 à 16:20, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> Alain Martel <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> 
>> Fresnel reflection for a metal ? Fresnel is for objects that have an IOR
>> and are not metals.
> 
> I recall reading that accurately rendering metals required an IOR.
> Maybe not for current POV-Ray though.
> 
> https://www.behance.net/gallery/35636521/Material-Studies-Metals
> 
> etc.
> 
> - BW
> 

And the IOR of metals tend to be complex numbers.


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