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From: Bryant Reif
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 1995 12:00 AM
To: PATRICK FOLEY
Cc: 'www-vrml@wired.com'
Subject: Re: Curved Light
At 07:56 AM 12/5/95 UT, PATRICK FOLEY wrote:
>Can you make a transparent object that distorts the image behind it? I mean,
>if you look theough a glass sphere in Reality, whatever is behind it is
>curved and bent according to the shape of the sphere.
This is called raytraced refraction and no VRML broswer supports it or will
in the near future due to its highly computational nature
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