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30 Jul 2024 02:16:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ATARI'09 Christmas  
From: Francois LE COAT
Date: 4 Dec 2009 11:11:22
Message: <4b1934aa$1@news.povray.org>
Hi,

Christian Froeschlin writes :
> Francois LE COAT wrote:
>> This kind of flash/highlight is obtained with the glossy effect. You
>> can also see it with <http://eureka.atari.org/doc/images/eureka.jpg>
>>
>> I wondered sometimes if it's not a kind of rendering bug with POV-Ray.

>
> Not impossible, but more likely it's just doing what you specify
> in the scene ;) With glossy effect, do you mean a phong or specular
> finish, or some form of actual reflection?

Here is the sky dome :

object {
	sphere {<0,0,0>,150}
	texture {
	pigment {color red 0.435 green 0.918 blue 0.945}
	finish {phong 1 phong_size 300 reflection 0.13}
		}
	}

for <http://eureka.atari.org/walking.mov> That's in the "finish".

> If you apply a glossy
> to the sky itself unrealistic results are to be expected as a
> real sky just doesn't reflect much light.

Of course ! It's an imaginary world.

Many thanks for the comments. You're welcome.

Regards,

-- 

Author of Eureka 2.12 (2D Graph Describer, 3D Modeller)
http://eureka.atari.org/
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