Subject: Mirrors...
From: Adrian Onsen - ASNG/F94 <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 07:54:27 -0700

I was talking to my friend the other day, and an interesting
problem came up... What is th colour of a mirror. We see every wavelength
of light being reftected off of it, but then again the color white also
reflects every wavelenght.. Tha't why we see it as white. So the problem
still remains, what is the base color of a mirror.     
        I know you're supposed to use the color black in any renderer,
but why is that? Shouldn't you have a silvery color?
                                          
        Can someone shed some light on this? Or maybe explain to me 
how a mirror differs from a dull object!       

						.. adrian ..
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