Experimenting with the new potential pattern and emitting media. In this 
image both the media and container are blob based. The media uses the 
3.7.1 potential pattern. Radiosity lighting only. Quite high AA to 
address some speckles as rays just glance the surface of one or more 
blob components.

Existing media boundary issues remain, requiring some care in set up. 
The significant advantage of using blobs for both the density patterns 
and the media container is performance(1). Given the radiosity and media 
here, the final render is relatively fast at about 9 minutes on my two 
core I3.

Frequency of the potential pattern set at 1.5 for the ring effect, plus 
a little turbulence which can be seen most on the blob component cylinders.

Bill P.
(1) - As Jaime too showed with his cloud work some months back.

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