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From: Scott Burton <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Refraction?
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On Tue, 31 Oct 1995, Ernie Wright wrote:

> > the main reason I would expect is that an increased refractive index
> > increases the likelyhood of raytracing recursion (more ray bouncing).
>
> I had to think about it, but that makes sense.

Ok, here's a question. How many ray bounces does LW calculate? (for
refractions and reflections).  I know in Alias you can tell it how many
bounces to calculate (obviously to save rendering time).  So how bout it,
new feature for LW? :)

Scott Burton - Lightwave Moderator - Command Line BBS
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