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  Re: alpha channel (+ua) makes media invisible?  
From: CShake
Date: 24 Jan 2010 13:31:15
Message: <4b5c91f3$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:
> Fact is that any emissive media IS totaly transparent by design. It adds 
> to whatever is behind, wighout filtering anything out.
> 
> What you can do:
> Add some absorbing media with absorbtion<0,1,1>. Removes the blue and 
> green, leaving the red.
> Add some scattering media and a light_source.
> Change the pigment to rgbt<1,1,1,0.9> or rgbf<1,1,1,0.9>
> 
> 
> Alain

Ahh, I see.
If I use what you said with the absorption media, it gives a bit of a 
black halo around it, but I found that only using scattering seems to 
produce comparable results to what I intended, though at a considerable 
time cost. Oh well.

Thanks!


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