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  Re: comet effect by translate?  
From: Stephen
Date: 27 May 2018 04:01:50
Message: <5b0a65ee$1@news.povray.org>
On 27/05/2018 07:49, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 26-5-2018 18:07, Stephen wrote:
>> On 26/05/2018 16:36, Bald Eagle wrote:
>>> For the running figures, a naive but quick approach would be to 
>>> iterate objects
>>> to the side and slightly backwards, with a progressively increasing
>>> transparency.
>>
>> That reminds me of a technique posted here some time ago. Which was to 
>> make a short animation with the figure moving and averaging/combining 
>> the images into one. I am sorry but I can't remember the details.
>>
> 
> That is currently available as 'blink' in the UberPOV version of 
> POV-Ray. It is one of the experimental patches. In the past, it existed 
> in pre-3.7 iirc.
> 


Alain mentioned blink but I did not know the technique was a feature of 
UberPOV. Nice. :-)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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