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#Luminance and Wattage

    09-May-95 15:53:49
Sb: #Luminance and Wattage
Fm: Michele Bousquet 100237,162
Dear Greg, I've been teaching a lot of architectural 3DS classes lately and I get this question all the time: Is it possible to somehow connect omni or spotlight luminance with wattage? I've been saying no, citing all the other factors that come into play in real life: radiosity, shadows etc. However there are a few other packages that have wattage settings. I think Accurender is one. It seems to me that wattage settings in non-ray-tracing packages wouldn't be perfectly accurate anyway. If all we're working with is an approximation, then is there one in 3DS? Thanks Michele