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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Date: 17 Aug 2003 11:10:51
Message: <Xns93DAAEC52A6F3raf256com@204.213.191.226>
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> Oooh! That's much better.  :o)  Then I guess, you are sampling the
> image to find bright spots (hopefully a 16bit image or more) and add

still - no ;o) this will give wrong results in some cases i.e. white paper 
isn't "sparky" but gray metall (silver) - is. 
But yes, my algorithm is quite simillar.

> the flares accordingly. Are you going to deal with soft-glows as well?

What are thoes?  Any examples of images with and without it?

> Will you send the patch to the MegaPOV team once finished?

It's a separate program right now I'll thing of it's license later, but 
probably it would have freeware version.


-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M


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