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31 Jul 2024 06:18:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media - Dust in room  
From: Admiral Justin
Date: 15 Dec 2002 16:19:20
Message: <3dfcf1d8@news.povray.org>
gonzo wrote:
> Admiral Justin wrote:
> 
>>I have seen many of the pictures using media to simulate particulate
>>matter in the air, like a sunbeam entering a dusty room, but I have not
>>been able to reproduce that effect.
>>
>>What happens is either I don't see any effect, or the entire scene
>>becomes one giant gray mass.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Well, without knowing what you tried its hard to guess why it didn't work,
> but for a scene like your example of a sunbeam in a dusty room, usually
> there has to be something tomake the effect visible, i.e. an object that
> casts a shadow in the sunbeam.
> 
> The effect is not the sunbeam or the media, its the shadows cast through it.
> 
> 
> RG - if God had intended man to fly, we'd all have been born with FAA
> certification
> 
> 
Well, in trying to use an outside light source, through a window with 
wood in the glass, this occurs.  I have a completely self-contained set 
of rooms in my scene (house) and various light sources, which are off 
while trying this.


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