Hugo <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote:
> Maybe MegaPOVs blurred reflection wouldn't change it's speed
> with max_trace_level?

  It wouldn't make any sense if max_trace_level would not affect blurred
reflection.

> The best results are when the averaged normals are scaled very big, but then
> the layers have a random value .. if you understand what I mean ... with
> only a few layers, this does not always look good..

  You can scale the normal very small, thus getting a similar result to
MegaPov's blurred reflection. It isn't very nice either (*really* grainy).

> Besides it seems a very
> big limitation that we can't apply both blur *and* an ordinary normal
> pattern / image_map ... doing so does not mix well without MegaPOV.

  The Q&T tip describes how to use both the blurred reflection trick and a
regular normal pattern.

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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