POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Alpha Bending : Re: Alpha Bending Server Time
12 Aug 2024 21:27:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Alpha Bending  
From: Rune S  Johansen
Date: 13 Jan 1999 16:56:22
Message: <369d1686.0@news.povray.org>
Axel Hecht wrote:
>Steve Vogel wrote:
>>
>> any chance that an object with a refractive index > 1.0 , no
>> reflections,  no phong, & no absorption could accomplish what you're
>> looking for?
>>
<SNIP>
>>
>> Steve  (you know the drill, remove the SPAM)
><..>
>
>Good start, but if I remember the Predator right, one should model the
>ior velocity-dependant. something like
>   ior 1+speed
>If that should be per body-part or complete is out of the scope of my
>memory. Or up to your fantasy :-)
>
>Axel

I think the model actually had ior also when it didn't move, it
was just hard to catch sight of. One couldn't see the little
distortion of the jungle behind. Well, at least that's how I
remember it.

Rune S. Johansen
http://hjem.get2net.dk/rsj


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