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10 Mar 2025 08:35:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Glories, POV-Ray, and diffraction  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 26 Feb 2025 18:10:00
Message: <web.67bf9effdc4a579e1f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> On 2/20/25 19:07, Bald Eagle wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to cast a shadow_through_ scattering media to
> > simulate the Brocken Spectre, but haven't figured that part out yet.
>
> Playing with an idea.

Nice.

However for the glory, Philip will be quite cross is you treat it like a
diffraction effect.
It's not - it's a plane wave interference effect.

The colors that you get are therefore sort of reversed from a regular rainbow.

Image_map attached.

- BW


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