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27 Apr 2024 07:42:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Camera scaling and focal_blur?  
From: Alain
Date: 13 Feb 2018 19:06:34
Message: <5a837d8a$1@news.povray.org>
Le 18-02-12 à 16:03, Mike Horvath a écrit :
> On 2/12/2018 2:02 PM, Alain wrote:
>> Le 18-02-10 à 22:36, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>>> I've been reading this
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking
>>>
>>> and have been wondering how to achieve the effect in POV-Ray. 
>>> Obviously, there is no true scale in POV-Ray, so there's no need to 
>>> "fake" the effect. But I don't know how to construct the correct camera.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> Use a larger aperture. Something like
>> vlength(Camera_Location, Focal_point)/4
>>
>> If that's not enough, use a smaller divisor.
> 
> Yeah, I got it working. But it doesn't look as good in POV-Ray as it 
> does in photography. I'll post some test renders soon.
> 
> 
> MIke

As the ratio aperture/focal_length increase, you also need more samples. 
Otherwise, the image will get very noisy.


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