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  Re: Texture: Canvas (slightly Transluscent)  
From: Jan Dvorak
Date: 19 Feb 2008 07:40:05
Message: <47bace25@news.povray.org>
Sven Littkowski napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> who can consult me? I want to create a scene named "The Magnificent men in 
> their Flying Machines", which contains a number of wicked airplanes and 
> want-to-be-airplanes. Most of them have canvas over the wooden framework.
> 
> While I have already a graphic file I can use for the canvas texture, I am 
> still in need of some consulting: the cancvas you get to see on vintage 
> airplanes is slightly transluscent, means, if you see such an airplane in 
> the air and you're below it, through the sunlight you can get an idea of the 
> wooden framework below the canvas. I need your advices how best to achieve 
> such an effect. To make it even a bit more difficult, the canvas seems to 
> blur the edges of the wooden framwork below it, in its slightly transluscent 
> effect. How to achieve that little blur effect?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sven 
> 
> 
use a blurred refraction:
-make it solid
-give it IOR
-use multiple pigment{Clear} normal{bumps} layers
-add the canvas itself

It's slow but it might work


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