5.6.3 Cylindrical Lights

If we add instead of spotlight the keyword cylinder, then the light is restricted to a cylinder. Note however, that the lightrays are still emitted from the point $ P$ and are thus not parallel.

	light_source { S, rgb C 
	  cylinder point_at P radius R0 falloff R1 [ tightness T ] }

Andreas Kriegl 2003-07-23