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  Re: How much is TOO FAR and TOO BIG?  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 4 Nov 2004 22:55:57
Message: <418af9cd$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Alain <aze### [at] qwertygov> wrote:
> 
>>Have you tried the good ol sky_sphere? It's "surface" is set at 
>>"infinity".
> 
> 
>   Actually, technically a sky_sphere is a unit sphere (ie. radius 1)
> around the camera (well, not really around the camera, but around the
> origin of each ray). Not really "infinite". :P
>   (The reason why it looks like it's farther away than any other
> object is that its color is taken only if the ray did not hit anything
> else. Thus the color of the sky sphere looks like it's behind every
> object.)
> 
As counter-intuitive ideas go, put that near the top of the list.  How 
does it work if a reflected ray never hits?


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