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From: rhinocerous
Subject: virtual light meter
Date: 24 Apr 2004 16:35:00
Message: <web.408acf0ef8e4d6634288a9180@news.povray.org>
hi,

i am looking to "measure" incident or ambient light in an outdoor povray
scene without a sun, just blue (perhaps cloudy) sky.

i have a tree object with leaves and i need to determine (roughly) how much
incident light each leaf receives. i think povray would be an ideal tool
for this job, but i am uncertian of how to begin this process.

any suggestions or tips are very welcome.

thanks,
matt zagrabelny


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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Subject: Re: virtual light meter
Date: 25 Apr 2004 09:10:34
Message: <Xns94D69A428D409raf256com@203.29.75.35>
mza### [at] dumnedu news:web.408acf0ef8e4d6634288a9180@news.povray.org

> any suggestions or tips are very welcome.

You probably want to edit sources of radiosity code.

Or maybe just data in *.rca file would be enought, find out its format from 
source code and write utility to read it and convert to some usable format.

-- 
http://www.raf256.com/3d/
Rafal Maj 'Raf256', home page - http://www.raf256.com/me/
Computer Graphics


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