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2 May 2024 12:27:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Media density  
From: Stephen
Date: 25 Jul 2016 12:20:21
Message: <57963c45$1@news.povray.org>
On 7/25/2016 4:19 PM, clipka wrote:
>> And it is?
>> >....
> Just the plain colour.
>
>>> >>I suspect your misconceptions may have their roots somewhere in the fact
>>> >>that there are two knobs available to introduce colour to media: The
>>> >>`emission`, `scattering` or `absorption` statement, respectively, and
>>> >>the `density` statement.
>>> >>
>> >
>> >I'm thinking of the value that the `density` statement passes to the
>> >media statement. Which it gets from the df3 file.
> Uh... no, `density` does/not/  get its value from "the df3 file". It
> gets its value (which is actually a colour) from a `density_map` and
> pattern.
>
> That pattern/can/  be a df3 file, using the `density_file` pattern, but
> it is just one of many options.
>

I appreciate the lesson in logic but I am not being paid to write a 
spec. :-P


And thanks for the answer, btw. :)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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