In article <38b93cb7@news.povray.org>, Nieminen Juha
<war### [at] sarakerttunen cs tut fi> wrote:
> Is there some difference between the patterned light source and a
> regular light source with a tiny sphere around it with the desired
> pattern applied?
Yes...the patterned light source evaluates a pigment at each point, so
it depends on position instead of just angle to the light source.(And
when I get the mappings working, it will also optionally depend on the
distance the light has travelled.)
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Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoo com
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/
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