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  Re: is there any feature for volume raytracing with povray?  
From: scott
Date: 10 Jan 2007 06:51:17
Message: <45a4d335$1@news.povray.org>
> Oh, maybe my description is not so clear.
> what i want is the volume raytracing technique based feature in povray.
> I know that we can render the implicit iso-surface by using the existing
> keyword "isosurface" in povray, but it seems that it is based on some
> technique like Marching Cube, which first extraction the geometry of the
> iso-surface. But with volume raytracing technique, we can directly 
> raytrace
> the volume data and save the geometry extracting step.

Look up df3 files and media in the POV docs, it might do what you want 
(never used it myself).


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