In article <01bfffdd$d34a9940$b913a1d0@mk>, "CreeD" <meshe@nqi.net> 
wrote:

> Good looking would be fine.  Physically, I would imagine that the 
> shadow wouldn't look so dark anyway, but I've never sat in a darkened 
> room with a spotlight and a crystal ball, and until I do, I'm just 
> full of conjecture.

This is realistic for the situation of one point light. When light is 
refracted, *all* of it is refracted, none of it gets past without having 
it's path bent. This means the edges of the shadow, where the light is 
being refracted away, will be black.
You usually don't see this in real life, because diffusely reflected 
light illuminates the shadow(both directly and indirectly, through the 
refracting object), and you usually have more than one light source. You 
should get more realistic effects by using more lights and radiosity.

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