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4 May 2024 14:14:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: trace question  
From: Stephen
Date: 10 Sep 2017 10:01:16
Message: <59b545ac$1@news.povray.org>
On 10/09/2017 14:27, clipka wrote:
> Am 10.09.2017 um 15:13 schrieb Stephen:
>> If I trace an object. How can I get the colour of the intersection of
>> the ray and object. As far as I can see trace() only returns the normal.
> 
> You'll need to know the pigment of the object, and invoke `eval_pigment`
> on the intersection point you get...
> 

Thanks, I had a blank in my memory.

> ... and hope that the pigment isn't UV-mapped,

Hope is not involved because there is a good chance I would want to do 
that. Is it at all possible?


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Regards
     Stephen


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