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Lighting Candlepower?

    26-Feb-94 07:21:02
Fm: Phillip L. Miller 74710,3061
To: Joe Simons, AIA 70732,3163
Using a recangluar spotlight with an extreme aspect ratio and reducing the hotsopt to zero is as best as you an do with R3. The light intensity is still originating from a point source however, so a true cove light is very difficult to acheive – yes, we NEED linear light sources AND parrallel lights! If you absolutely need the effect, one workaround is actually to use a projector light (excluding everything but the wall and placed far enough away to cast even illumination) that is using a vertical gradient bitmap. This does work and makes others ask how you did it.