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25 Jun 2024 01:39:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Alpha channel with background color  
From: clipka
Date: 27 Apr 2013 17:59:40
Message: <517c4a4c@news.povray.org>
Am 27.04.2013 19:22, schrieb Subclick:

>> BTW, instead of a huge sphere you could just as well use a sky_sphere -
>> it /should/ do exactly the same (provided you're using "#version 3.7").
>> There /is/ a difference between specifying a background and specifying a
>> single-colored sky sphere.
>
> I don’t know if what I’ve found is a bug, but, for me, a “sky_sphere”
> object does not work the same as a huge sphere object like that. I’ve
> rendered the test scene at the end of this message with different
> parameters and got the following results.

As the aim was for the 3.7 version to get a consistent behaviour 
regardless of whether you use a sky_sphere or a huge regular sphere, any 
inconsistency between the two must be considered a bug.

Can you please file your findings in a bug report at bugs.povray.org? 
Thanks a lot.


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