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9 Aug 2024 09:08:28 EDT (-0400)
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From: Mike Raiford
Date: 2 Mar 2005 14:40:02
Message: <42261692$1@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff wrote:

> That's not the way they are in the real world...that's just a 
> half-silvered mirror. This is a half-silvered mirror with a filtering 
> layer on the less reflective side. Both sides are equally bright in this 
> case...having the viewing side be darker makes the effect stronger, but 
> is not necessary. This is a fairly accurate way to model real-world 
> one-way mirrors.

That seems to be the way those obnoxious reflective sunglasses are made, 
but IIRC, two-way mirrors are a bit different.

And couldn't the 50/50 effect be acheived with conserve_energy?


-- 
~Mike

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