In article <3c07bf45@news.povray.org>, Tin### [at] hotmailcom says...

> After a bit of testing, the second scene uses an ambient of 20.  The
> reflection in the centre sphere is now more like we want, a bright visible
> orange compared to the rest of the reflection.  But now, because of colour
> clipping, the actual lightbulb and the reflection in the left spere are no
> longer orange, but are now yellow  (i.e., rgb<1,0.5,0>*20=rgb<20,10,0>
> becomes rgb<1,1,0>)

I know that problem. What I do, is not using values like <1,.5,0> but 
<1,.5,.01>. The advantage is, that when the color values get clipped, it 
will fade to white, instead to yellow, wich is more realistic 
(overexposed spots in photographs also usually become white).

Lutz-Peter

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