POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Area Light Setup : Re: Area Light Setup Server Time
19 Apr 2024 09:19:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Area Light Setup  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 28 Jan 2023 11:00:00
Message: <web.63d545f610df5b0e1f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> On 2023-01-25 12:22 (-4), Alain Martel wrote:
> >
> > Any sampling array size between those values will be silently increased
> > to the following size of the list. A 4 x 4 adaptive is really 5 x 5, 6 x
> > 6 is promoted to 9 x 9 and 10 x 10 become 17 x 17.
>
> Not according to my tests.  The attached images were rendered with
> area_illumination to reveal the internal array of lights.

That's a cool render - you always come up with some of the most interesting
ideas, techniques, and methods.

Did you just make an area light that's parallel to the checkered plane and then
point the camera down to look through it and so see the reflection of the light?


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