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30 Jul 2024 22:21:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: selective transparency of objects  
From: Chris B
Date: 30 Apr 2008 06:16:04
Message: <481846e4$1@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote in message 
news:481844dc$1@news.povray.org...
>
> 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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