POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Question about media_attenuation behavior. : Re: Question about media_attenuation behavior. Server Time
28 Apr 2024 17:50:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about media_attenuation behavior.  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 22 Jan 2018 02:54:23
Message: <5a6598af$1@news.povray.org>
On 21-1-2018 21:56, William F Pokorny wrote:
> I was playing with scattering media today. I happened to stick my light 
> source inside the media container and was surprised to find POV-Ray 
> suddenly running orders of magnitude faster - seconds instead of minutes.
> 

This is an interesting/important find indeed! My image 'Cat Alley' 
above, takes about 6 hours to render as you can expect. Like you, I 
always assumed media to severely slow down a render no matter what. I 
need to play with this a bit now. Thanks!

-- 
Thomas


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