There was a discussion regarding Maple and two light sources a couple of days ago (unfortunately the content of that conversation has been removed by the original poster so if any of you thought you were getting early signs of alzheimers, rest assured the questions/posts were indeed there and you can all put your memories at ease for a little).

I did indeed go back into Maple to see how far it was that we lost the two light source capability.  I can tell you that as far back as Maple 10.06 dual (or more) light sources was not working.  So I worked my way up - of course the OP of the deleted questions mentioned Maple Vr4 (I think), so I started there.  Maple 6 and Maple 7 is ok.  I was unable to check Maple 8 and 9 as my computers with that software are currently missing (probably buried in my shed somewhere - as long as the wife hasn't got rid of them.. anyways)

So I'll share with you what once was.  From Maple 7, and an animated gif (which hopefully works) to illustrate two light sources (one brown light, and one mauve or purple light) and what it looked like from Maple 7.

with(plots):
setoptions3d(style=patchnogrid,projection=.9):
a:=plot3d(-x^2-y^2-x*y,x=-1..1,y=-1..1,color=[.5,.9,.9],grid=[15,15]):
b:=n->display(a,orientation=[n,60]):
display([seq(b(10*n),n=0..35)],light=[90,-80,1,.2,.1],light=[90,40,1,.5,.8],insequence=true);

The animation is not working so the uploaded gif file is here for you to check out. .. Couldn't upload the gif file so I've zipped it - that worked

twolightsource.zip


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