"Chaanakya" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> > Am 17.07.2012 19:13, schrieb Chaanakya:
> >
> > >> If you have a scene with plenty of transparent stuff, you might want to
> > >> specify "default { pigment { rgbt 1 } }" at the beginning of your scene
> > >> file to save you a bit of typing.
> > >
> > > Something's not working correctly - if I make a cube with an IOR of 1.5
> > > (essentially a glass cube), I don't see a reflection.  There should be a
> > > reflection at some point of the cube, but I don't see that.
> >
> > Uh... yes, you should /definitely/ see a reflection. You do have some
> > surroundings to reflect in the cube, don't you?
> >
> > And I'm presuming you did specify "finish { reflection { 1.0 fresnel } }".
>
> Does this look like a glass cube?
>
> #version 3.6;
> #include "colors.inc"
> #include "CIE.inc"
>
> global_settings {
>   max_trace_level 1024
>   ambient_light White
>   assumed_gamma 1.0
> }
>
> camera {
>   location <3.5,3.5,0>
>   //rotate <0,-clock*360,0>
>   look_at <0,0,0>
> }
>
> light_source {
>   <1000, 1000, 0>
>   color White
> }
>
> plane {
>   y, -10.0
>   pigment { checker Green, White }
> }
>
> box {
>   <-1,-1,-1>,<1,1,1>
>   pigment {
>     transmit 1
>   }
>   finish {
>     ambient 0
>     diffuse 0
>     conserve_energy
>     reflection {
>       1.0
>       fresnel on
>     }
>     specular 0
>     roughness 0.001
>   }
>   interior {
>     ior 1.5
>   }
> }
>
> As I said, something doesn't look right here.  Thank you so much for your help!
>
> - Chaanakya

Never mind....when I rerendered the 1/sqrt(2) IOR (mentioned in the thread I
linked to above), I got the expected result.  Hence, this problem has been
solved.  Thank you very much for bearing with me :D

Sincerely,

- Chaanakya

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