On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:34:42 -0700, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:

>For the rendering screen? Just out of curiosity, why? I can understand
>why Chris added the checkerboard pattern so that you can see alpha channel
>masks and a black background is traditional, but I don't see any advantage
>to a user specified background.

For those cases when you want to replicate an image? A lot of
modelling software uses backdrops and I certainly found it useful more
often than not. The idea just popped into my head when I read the
original post - it would have its uses in POV, too.


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