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Opened by Christoph Lipka - 2009-10-24
Last edited by Christoph Lipka - 2010-03-22
Opened by Christoph Lipka - 2009-10-24
Last edited by Christoph Lipka - 2010-03-22
FS#61 - Dispersion does not give proper results
Source code inspection during examination of issues with the scene published at http://povray.sitewww.ch/?p=177 show the following issues with current (beta.34) implementation of dispersion in POV-Ray 3.7:
- The same adjustment to the IOR that is applied at the very first dispersion interface is erroneously applied to all subsequent interfaces.
- As an exception, dispersion adjustment is erroneously not applied to any interface defined by the surface of a non-dispersing object embedded into a dispersing object.
While this still allows to use dispersion for artistic effect, it is neither physically realistic, nor does it match 3.6 behavior.
Closed by Christoph Lipka
Monday, 22 March 2010, 15:03 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing:
Monday, 22 March 2010, 15:03 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing:
residual minor issues with change #4895
do not pertain to this bug report
fixed with change #4895
Note that change #4895 adds two new source files; they have been added to the Visual Studio projects, but not to the Linux makefiles yet.
Minor issues still open regarding interpolation of the dispersion colors table, in order to improve high-dispersion-count results.