"Florian Brucker" <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote in message
news:417949c3@news.povray.org...
> As I said before, I really like the idea of making it all look like it
> was rendered in one pass, e.g. no visible breaks in background etc.
> Nevertheless, I see that artistic freedom is important, too.
>
> I think using some tricks like light_groups, spot_lights or point_lights
> with fade_distance, it should be easy to create a piece of table, which
> blends nicely with other contributions but allows custom lighting.
>
> After all it is IMHO not the idea of such a project that everybody
> provides a full scene, but something small, which can nevertheless be
> very interesting. Therefore I don't think you'll need a change in
> background. You should put something interesting *on* the table, not
> behind it :)
>
> Using a seperate table for each element would be a possibility, but it
> destroys much of the basic idea of the whole project (the one idea makes
> it so interesting). If you vary the camera settings, too, you get
> nothing more than some images which share an object...
>
> Florian
> -- 


Again, I agree with Florian. It seems like with spotlights or pointlights
with good fade distances, you could light your objects without significantly
effecting the borders of your table. radiosity might make that difficult
though.

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