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From: Jon Cage
Subject: Specifying light varying intensity.
Date: 21 Mar 2005 07:35:00
Message: <web.423ebe462033ebffb7fd4d090@news.povray.org>

Hi there, I'm new to POV-Ray and am trying to model some Luxeon emitters.
I'd like to model the radiation patterns they produce. The technical
documents give some typical spatial radiation patterns :

http://www.lumileds.com/pdfs/DS25.pdf

I was hoping I could enter this information into the settings for a light
source somehow, but can't see a way to go about it. Could anyone suggest a
way to achieve this?

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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Specifying light varying intensity.
Date: 21 Mar 2005 10:05:41
Message: <423ee2c5@news.povray.org>

Jon Cage wrote:
> Hi there, I'm new to POV-Ray and am trying to model some Luxeon emitters.
> I'd like to model the radiation patterns they produce. The technical
> documents give some typical spatial radiation patterns :
> 
> http://www.lumileds.com/pdfs/DS25.pdf
> 
> I was hoping I could enter this information into the settings for a light
> source somehow, but can't see a way to go about it. Could anyone suggest a
> way to achieve this?

My best guess would be to somehow use either emitting media w/radiosity, 
or a small area light with the appropriate areas shadowed.

One thing my may be interested in, becuase you can define light by 
wavelength and color temp:

http://www.ignorancia.org/lightsys.php

HTH

-- 
~Mike

Things! Billions of them!

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