The group povray.programming is for discussing the source code of 
POV-Ray, not the scene description language.  Follow-ups to
povray.newusers please.

     Thorsten

In article <3aa9b3cc@news.povray.org> , "John M. Dlugosz"
<joh### [at] dlugoszcom> wrote:

> Could someone with immediate knowledge of this feature help me out and tell
> me the equivilent statement in the current POV version?
>
> See http://www.dlugosz.com/Artwork/POV/lamp1.JPG for the picture: this is
> your basic glowing effect.
>
> TIA,
> --John
>
> light_source {
>     <0,0,0>
>     color White
>     looks_like {
>         sphere { 0, 1
>             pigment { color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 1> }
>             halo {
>                 emitting
>                 spherical_mapping
>                 linear
>                 color_map {
>                     [ 0.0 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, .999999> ]
>                     [ 0.5 color rgbt <1, 1, 0, 0.5> ]
>                     [ 0.8 color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 0> ]
>                     [ 1.0 color rgbt <1, 1, 1, 0> ]
>                     }
>                 samples 10
>                 }
>             hollow
>             scale <3,1.5,1.5>
>             } //end sphere
>         } // end looks_like
>     translate y*9.7
>     }
>
>



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