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8 Aug 2024 12:25:41 EDT (-0400)
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From: Tim Nikias
Date: 3 Sep 2005 05:07:40
Message: <431967dc@news.povray.org>
> I presume that the landscape itself is too low (and "far") to reflect in
the
> floor, so only the sky is reflected... Is that correct, Tim?

Yup, great thinking Thomas, but there's a technical side to it as well.

The landscape is just a photo, which is placed roughly 16 meters away from
the room. It just fits the camera's viewing frustrum. But since it just sits
on a rectangular mesh (made of two triangles), reflections would look
awkward. So it isn't reflected at all, anywhere, using no_reflection. The
viewpoint does allow this, because, like you said, the room is above the
ground, so it would only reflect things above the floor-level, which, in
effect, would only be clouds.

Regards,
Tim

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"Tim Nikias v2.0"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>


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