Re: Fresnel effects -- plugin tool 2004-01-20 - By m3d242
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> (when the object is seen from a low angle), refraction cannot occure and
only reflection does.
Refraction occurs no matter what angle you look at the object. The index of
refraction is a calulation of how light bends when passing through
transparent material (water, glass) it has no bearing on how transparent the
object is. You seem to be saying that refraction and transparency are the
same thing and they are not.
> Since the Carrara optical model does includes a refraction indice, Carrrara
should be able to render, without any extra plug-in, the so-called "Fresnel
effect".
Not so, because refraction and Fresnel are not interchangeable. They are not
the same thing. The Fresnel dictates how an object (dependent of the
viewing angle) appears to go from transparent to reflective. It has nothing to
do with how light refracts through said object.
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