POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : selective transparency of objects : Re: selective transparency of objects Server Time: 30 Aug 2008 12:14:28 GMT
  Re: selective transparency of objects  
From: Chris B
Date: 30 Apr 2008 10:16:04
"Chris B" <nomail [at] nomailcom> wrote in message 
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>
> You could fairly simply achieve something pretty similar if you can define 
> the shape of your 'transparent' object as a prism with the outline of the 
> shape as it would appear from the camera position.

BTW. You can define a prism with the outline of more or less any shape you 
can define in POV-Ray by rendering an image of it with sufficient contrast, 
loading the bitmap image into Inkscape, using 'Path', 'Trace Bitmap' and 
saving as a POV-Ray prism object.

Regards,
Chris B.


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