In article <cja### [at] netplexaussieorg>, 
cja### [at] earthlinknet says...
> In article <MPG.19835f5a3e611a0798983b@news.povray.org>,
>  Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that part of the problem was 
> > the sphere being way to small, but I also suspect that it is simply 
> > impossible to make media 'thick' enough to obscure objects at relatively 
> > short distances without resorting to something like what you seem to be 
> > talking about doing for the milk. However, I could have simply screwed up 
> > the settings. ;) I am pretty much flying blind here and experimenting 
> > with something I never used before. lol
> 
> To make it thicker, you just need to increase the density. To get the 
> same results at half the scale, you need to double the density. It 
> sounds like you think there is some limit to how dense you can make 
> media, or that high densities are somehow a "last resort".
> 
> 

Umm. I am confused here.. Looking at the docs implies that density is a 
color vector. I am a bit unclear how you make that more dense, nor does 
increasing the size of this vector seem to produce a noticeable effect. 
It is possible something about what I am doing is simply not allowing 
media to be seen, but... Like I said, I haven't a clue what I am doing, I 
just tried something and it doesn't seem to be doing what I expected (if 
anything). :p

camera {

 location <0.0000001,0,-200>
 look_at <0,0,0>
}

light_source {
     <0, 0, -130>
     color rgb <1, 1, 1>  // light's color
}

light_source {
     <130, 0, -130>
     color rgb <.5, .5, .5>  // light's color
}

light_source {
     <-130, 0, -130>
     color rgb <.5, .5, .5>  // light's color
}
 
difference {
  sphere {<0,0,0>, 100
    pigment {color rgb <1,0,0>}
    hollow
    interior {
      media {
        //absorption rgb <1,0,0>
        //emission rgb <1,0,0>
        intervals 1
        variance 0
        scattering {1, rgb <1,0,0> extinction 0}
        density {
          checker
          density {rgb <1,0,0>}
          density {rgb <1,1,0>}
        }
      }
    }
  }
  box {<-110,-110,5>,<0,110,-100>
    pigment {rgbt <1,1,1,1>}
  }
  rotate <0,-20,0>
  //no_shadow
}

-- 
void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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