Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> And once again, the existing method, while more accurate, is impractical, 
> complicated and incomprehensible to most people for any reasonable 
> application they might want to try it with. Even the people that have 
> experimented with it so far have yet to get it to work as easily as it 
> would need to be for a newbie to employ it. As someone that doesn't spend 
> all my free time trying things in POV-Ray, that includes me. lol And, as 
> you point out, its quite likely slower, which also makes it impractical 
> for some uses.
> 

What exactly makes you think that any such patch is easier to use?  On 
the contrary - a patch that takes a less universal approach than a full 
scattering media simulation to gain faster results most likely requires 
additional controls to be set.

Christoph

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