<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Just making a yellowish light bulb shaped object is not hard, but making it shine light (only noticeable if it casts shadows) is computationally expensive and programming-wise more complicated than diffusely lit scene. Here are some examples:</font></font><div>
<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/Shadows">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Visualization/Shadows</a><br>
</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/MultiPass_Rendering#Shadow_mapping">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/MultiPass_Rendering#Shadow_mapping</a><br></font></font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, web-Dmitri web-Danewitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.danewitz@web.de" target="_blank">d.danewitz@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px"><div>Hello!<br><br>Is is possible in VTK to create an object that shines by itself? (So that one can see the light from the object by looking onto the object, like a light bulb, a sun or a lamp)<br>
<br>Greets<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Dmitri<br></div></font></span></div></div>
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