POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Modelling atmospheric refraction : Re: Modelling atmospheric refraction Server Time
7 May 2024 23:58:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Modelling atmospheric refraction  
From: clipka
Date: 14 May 2018 10:45:47
Message: <5af9a11b$1@news.povray.org>
Am 14.05.2018 um 16:25 schrieb Bald Eagle:

> 1. As clipka will probably eventually point out, POV-Ray is a raytracing
> software, not a commercial scientific or astronomical visualization package.  So
> keep in mind that there may be limitations on what you can realistically
> accomplish.

Why should I point that out? Enough people doing that already ;)

> 3.  I don't believe you can currently do anything like an interior_map, or apply
> a pattern like gradient or spherical to an interior IOR.   This is something to
> seriously consider as a future feature, but as far as I'm aware it's not yet
> possible.

You're absolutely right there - both with the "not yet possible"
assessment as well as the "consider as a future feature" part.

Certainly not trivial to implement though, so I hope nobody's holding
their breath.


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