> Scott Hill <sco### [at] innocentcom> wrote:
> :>   Putting one copy of the original object and several copies of
> : translucent
> :> objects doesn't give the correct result.
> 
> :     Why not ?
> 
>   Because all the "samples" have to contribute by the same amount. In this
> method you will have irregular distribution of the samples.
> 
>   The correct way would be take n "samples" each one of them contributing
> 100/n % to the final color.
>   With only semi-transparent objects each object contributes less than
> 100/n %. Adding one instance of the non-transparent object makes the result
> only worse.

Yes, this should be better, but will povray interact well with the idea? I mean
povray will surely be able to make n transparent objects, but will it accumulate
the colors correctly?

Thanks,
	Simon

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