POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Micro- vs. Macronormals : Re: Micro- vs. Macronormals Server Time
3 Jul 2024 05:52:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Micro- vs. Macronormals  
From: Warp
Date: 12 Mar 2009 12:23:53
Message: <49b93718@news.povray.org>
clipka <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> The "big normals" approach instead uses very large-scale bump maps - e.g. larger
> than the whole picture. Multiple sampling is achieved by rendering the shot
> multiple times, while the variations in pertubation are generated by
> translating the bump map by a (large) random offset. Averaging is done in a
> post-processing step.

  I think you should read this:

http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/languageQandT.html#blurredreflection

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                                                          - Warp


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