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10 Aug 2024 11:21:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Background Images?  
From: Alan Kong
Date: 7 Jan 2000 01:22:00
Message: <lf1b7sk7moiosk7lnr1u2an7iaag721hs3@4ax.com>
Val, please see POV-Ray documentation, section 4.7.1.5 - "Image Maps".
Yes, an image can be used as a background or mapped to objects. Photo
images of people, product labels, or even other rendered images may be
used.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:20:40 -0800, in message
<3875761d@news.povray.org>, "Valerie Robbins" <vro### [at] earthlinknet>
wrote:

>Is it possible with POV Ray 3.1 to put in a background image.  I know about
>the sky sphere, but I would like to have my objects in the foreground, and
>then a bitmap (or some other graphic format) in the back, like a picture of
>some snowy mountians.  Is this possible without actually modelling the
>mountains?  I know that many software packages have features like this, but
>I'm at a loss to find anything mentioned in the POV documentation on it.

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