Gilles Tran wrote:

> 

> news: chr### [at] netplexaussieorg...
>> In article <3e0d9909@news.povray.org>,
>>  "Gilles Tran" <git### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
>> I could understand it having an advantage over using more common image
>> formats for light mapping, but what use does it have in POV?
> 
> Hmm, it looks that you haven't seen what's going on in p.b.i these days.
> Come on, give it a try, you'll see the advantage by yourself :-) (and I
> didn't believe it before I was given the patch). With HDR, we now have
> POV-Ray images virtually impossible to tell from actual photographs. See
> JRG's watch pic for instance.

In my opinion HDRI is the next step closer to reality and POV-Ray will 
become a high end renderering system. The images in p.b.i are - more ore 
less - impressive because of the natural way of illumination.

Regards,
Andreas

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