Hi all, I've been on hiatus for a while, but started POVing again by revisiting
this shot that I did last Christmas. Here is the final version, with somewhat
better looking (and faster rendering) media, along with properly colored glows
at the spotlight apexes.

I tried using media filled spheres for the glows, but they are slow to render
and I ran into the all-too-common media container boundary overlap artifacts.
For this final version I wrote a simple glow macro that uses a spherical
pigment_pattern as a transparency gradient for emissive color that is then
projected on billboards.

The scene file is available in p.t.s-f

Cheers,
Rob
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Brrr... I am feeling the cold :-)

Very nice work indeed. I am going to study your code for this. Never too 
/young/ to learn  ;-)

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> Brrr... I am feeling the cold :-)
>
> Very nice work indeed. I am going to study your code for this. Never too
> /young/ to learn  ;-)

Thank you, sir :)

Here's a comp of all lighting possibilities, driven by 7 animation frames
(scene file also in p.t.s-f).

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Frosty balls - not to be confused with blue balls.

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"jhu" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Frosty balls - not to be confused with blue balls.

Only in frame 3 ;)
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