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25 Jun 2024 01:55:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Alpha channel with background color  
From: clipka
Date: 27 Apr 2013 18:06:17
Message: <517c4bd9@news.povray.org>
Am 27.04.2013 23:59, schrieb clipka:
> 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.

Then again, please don't - I just noticed that you're using a different 
pigment for the regular sphere, which causes the inconsistencies.


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