ziggie opened this issue on Aug 05, 2009 ยท 761 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 08 September 2009 at 9:32 PM
The "box" is 50% diffuse white, 50% reflection. This is a material that could exist in real life, but no known material behaves this way. (Real reflection is not uniform at all angles of incidence - one must implement the Fresnel effect for realism.)
Anyway, such as it is, these materials obey the law of conservation of energy. The render looks fine to me.
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