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30 Jul 2024 22:16:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Old "halo" feature  
From: Fa3ien
Date: 29 Nov 2007 17:34:03
Message: <474f3e5b$1@news.povray.org>

> Salutations.
> 
> I ran across an interesting picture on the IRTC site that has a very nice nebula
> effect. In efforts to replicate it and figure out how it works to use it in my
> own applications, I started with the old fashioned copy and paste technique.
> Well, I soon found out that it has been discontinued, replaced with "media" and
> "interior". Well, not being a very seasoned man, I have not had any success in
> "retrofitting" the old halo function to be used in interior, or media with
> similar results.

Nobody, and no algorithm or trick can do that.  Halos and media are 
really different beasts.  The best you can do is learn to use media,
then try to re-create the effect.  That's a classic problem, and this
was always the only answer, sorry.

Fabien.


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