Peter Popov wrote:

> Psychomek wrote in message <361BECD9.D79B3A23@geocities.com>...
> >I am tring too play around with Julian fractals in povray....  but it
> >seems that they have ABSOLUTELY no color....  meaning they are black...
> >how do i color the fractal.. the attached file is my pov file that i'm
> >using top test it...... PLEASE help me!
>
> As Ken pointed, you need a texture. I have done several animations of julias
> in which the object swirls and morphs, and I think that what looks best as a
> texture is something like:
>
> texture
> { pigment { White }
>   finish { diffuse 1 ambient 0 brilliance 2.25 specular 0.6 roughness 0.005
> phong 0.3 phong_size 6.675 metallic 0.5 }
> }
>
> Light up the julia with several differently coloured light sources and it
> looks really nice.
>
> Peter

  Thanks for the tip on the lights and on your previous post on camera in the
fractal.....   and as soon as I get a better pic of the fractal (the newone..the
code is in povray tutorial newsgroup) i'll post it in Images....

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