Yup, understood your point. Actually, even a
"classic" real image of this idea (placing real
glass-blocks with "painted" image-maps, all
held by metal, some nice spotlights...) might
look somewhat... Aesthetic.

Someday, I'll give it a try...



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Tim Nikias
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights/index.html
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>
> I think you are thinking along the lines of what I *don't* want to do!
> It's actually very simple. Think of, say, 10 slices of an image, each
> one fully transparent, but emitting light. (Sorry, newbie to pov so
> might not use the right terms.)
>
> You will be looking at and through all the slices, and your eye/brain
> will make these into a 3D image.
>
> You could do this simply by printing each slice onto a glass sheet.
> Where there is no image, the glass is transparent. Where there is an
> image, the image is, white, say. When you look at the whole set, you
> will see a 3D image with full parallax as you move your head.
>
> Except you can do it better in povray as you don't have the physical
> constraints of one image hiding another.
>
> Hope you see what I am saying.
>
> --
> Kaveh

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