In article <4000a123$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote:

> At least PovRay did render the guide hairs, though. I thickened the guide
> hairs to 0.0004 in the .inc file and got some results (it looked like a mop,
> though). You're right, though; PoseRay, although worked perfectly for
> converting the .OBJ files to .INC so there's no risk to getting Poser5 and
> not being able to create PovRay models (which was my main concern), the
> dynamic hair thing just didn't seem to be economical yet.

Raytracing isn't very good at rendering very small objects...such 
objects can easily fall between pixels, and tracing enough additional 
samples to catch them is time consuming. I've been thinking about 
various possibilities with media using direction-dependent 
textures...I've already done some tests, though with a function pattern 
(using my function pattern extensions) on a surface rather than in 
media. Perhaps this can help fill out hair generated through actual 
geometry...and this is another area where some form of variable 
antialiasing would be useful.

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