POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : IES Files : Re: IES Files Server Time
20 Nov 2024 10:23:38 EST (-0500)
  Re: IES Files  
From: Kari Kivisalo
Date: 21 Sep 2001 07:38:49
Message: <3BAB2703.1EFD7F22@engineer.com>
Pedro Rosas wrote:
>
> Do you know whether is possible (or how hard it would be) to read
> photometric information of a "real" light (IES file) and create the
> corresponding POV light?

What does an IES file look like? The intensity can be coded to the
alpha channel of a spherical image map which is mapped to a sphere
around a light source. 


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Kari Kivisalo


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