Still figuring out how photons work, first time playing with dispersion.

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Seems to have clipped the beam after the first mirror. I can't understand
why it's only diffused away from that point onward. Using max_trace_level
within the photons statement of global settings?

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hughes, b. wrote:
> Seems to have clipped the beam after the first mirror. I can't understand
> why it's only diffused away from that point onward. Using max_trace_level
> within the photons statement of global settings?

Actually it had something to do with the IOR I was using...I changed it
and it fixed it (the render I'm doing right now is extremely peculiar,
I'll post when it's done in a few hours)

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Tim Cook
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In article <3dad5264@news.povray.org>,
 "hughes, b." <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:

> Seems to have clipped the beam after the first mirror. I can't understand
> why it's only diffused away from that point onward. Using max_trace_level
> within the photons statement of global settings?

Up to the first mirror POV is computing illumination directly from the 
light source, after that it is using media photons.

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