POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : photons : Re: photons Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:31:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: photons  
From: Christian Perle
Date: 16 Aug 2000 13:35:39
Message: <399ad0eb@news.povray.org>
Paul Daniel Jones <pdj### [at] psuedu> wrote:

> How can i take a light source and reflect the light off a mirror type
> object and get both beams of light (incident and reflected) to show up
> in media? I tried using photons and media.... but I cannot seem to get
> the reflected light to interact with the media....

This is not how raytracing works. You probably want radiosity.

bye,
  Chris
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