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- From: bojsen@moria.UUCP (Per Bojsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Gemstone refractive index data
- Message-ID: <1c1f3296.ARN5ecf@moria.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 16:23:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec3.230153.9113@sandbox.kenn.wa.us>
- <1992Dec4.151841.25897@athena.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec4.151841.25897@athena.mit.edu>, Yoav O. Yerushalmi writes:
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- > If a program was to implement birefringence, shouldn't it also handle
- > the fact that the index of refraction is a function of the frequency
- > of light as well...
- > Can raytracers handle prisms of different colors? Worse yet, there is also
- > circular birefringence, and dispersion, and .......
-
- Radiance handles dispersion and variable index of refraction to a certain
- degree. I haven't played with it, though, so I don't know how good the
- support is.
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