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28 Jul 2024 16:25:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Mathematics Behind Spotlights  
From: Leonardo
Date: 5 Dec 2004 18:05:00
Message: <web.41b3920a329b38cf27bbadf50@news.povray.org>
"Captain Chemistry" <njj### [at] studentmonasheduau> wrote:
>
> What if I told you that the SAME EFFECT could be obtained by creating some
> functions that *simulate* spotlight intensity at all points in it's cone
> and then using those functions in some EMITTING media which can be maybe
> 100 times faster than scattering media in a slightly detailed image (no
> joke).
>

Well... that might work, but you won't have any volumetric shadows, which is
the greatest thing in scattering media... :(


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