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  Re: More on neon tube lights  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 9 Sep 1998 22:29:41
Message: <35f72b85.0@news.povray.org>
Wayne Gordon wrote in message <35F### [at] phoenixnet>...
>I futzed around for a couple of nights with the old tubefont.inc
>file and 3.1b4 when it first came out...trying to put media in the
>hollow, semi-translucent, highly ambient letters. Not very pretty, but
>I'm a hack! :-) Anyone think this might be a promising idea? And I
>was just getting semi-semi-competent with halos....

You might want to save some nerve by using a density_file. See
binaries.utilities for dta1df3 byPoD, text.tutorials for a tut on making df3
files and binaries.images for an example. The latter two are by me and I
know I'm not being very modest, but I hope this will help you.

Trace a ray!

Peter


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