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  Re: Spherical and Cylindrical Lights?  
From: Glen Berry
Date: 20 Feb 2000 02:21:08
Message: <PZSvOOQW=ePZ5wC7yszhOVhlAGCL@4ax.com>
On 20 Feb 2000 01:55:05 -0500, ron### [at] povrayorg (Ron Parker)
wrote:

>I think what he's looking for is a cylinder-shaped area light, like
>a fluorescent tube.

Ron understands me perfectly. 

I'd like to have 3-D area lights in the shapes of spheres and
cylinders, instead of being limited to 2-D area lights in the shapes
of rectangles and circles (circles are supported in Mega-POV, at
least.)

So how about it? Would this be terribly difficult to achieve?

later,
Glen Berry


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