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  Re: Media artifacts, help needed!  
From: Alain
Date: 26 Oct 2006 06:05:10
Message: <45408856$1@news.povray.org>
Kenneth nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 26/10/2006 01:27:
> "Random Pete" <pet### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I'm working on a design which has a number of media-filled objects (using
>> emission to produce glowing effects around other solid objects). Very often
>> where 2 objects overlap in the camera view, occasonal bright white pixels
>> appear on the objects...

> If you're using spotlights in your scene, there seems to be a bug with
> media-filled objects when using spotlights (and cylinder lights).  I only
> recently came across this problem, and posted a discussion about it...

>
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.45125ba9d84b4b77cc29cf380%40news.povray.org%3E/

> The only solution that I found was to turn off media_interaction in the
> lights (which in your case would be OK, since you're using emission media.)
> Perhaps this will help?

> Ken W.


Another solution: use a regular or parallel light and a mask. The mask is a 
simple box with a hole punched trough with a cylinder.

-- 
Alain
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"Sure, everyone's in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it into 
the body of a great white shark, suddenly you're a madman." 
             --Futurama


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