Op 28/06/2021 om 03:31 schreef clipka:
> My guess is that what you're unhappy with are just the artifacts 
> generated by `+am3`.
> 

Interesting stuff. I am currently using +am3 +a0.01 +ac0.90 +r3 for the 
granite project. Those are not the most optimal settings as I want more 
speed than quality at this stage, but for 'A Quiet Lane' for instance, I 
used up to +am3 +a0.01 +ac0.99 +r6. I seem to remember that +r4 was also 
right. Render was not very rapid of course... ;-)

-- 
Thomas

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> The "e"'s in Persistence look, to my eye, "less solidly bounded" or "less fully
> and completely filled with black" than I ... would like?  Have expected?
> The legs of the "n" seem particularly bad.  They're ... mottled.
> Same with the "r", "m" ...
> the "p" in povray, the "g" in org.

Here is a possible source of the mottling according to my limited knowledge of
how anti-aliasing works: At the edges of the characters what you get is a
percentage of the texture of the object in question and a percentage of the
background. For example, if the edge of an object lies right in the middle of a
pixel then the color of that pixel will be computed as 50% the texture of the
object and 50% the texture of the background. Since you're using a mottled
texture for the floor, that mottling is being factored into the black texture of
the text where anti-aliasing is being applied to the text edges. To see if this
is the problem just use a solid color for the floor and see if that eliminates
the mottling.

As far as making the text bolder, here is an imperfect solution. (I'm guessing
you're willing to make a slight compromise based on your proposed scale
solution.) This macro will create an object consisting of multiple copies of the
original object offset a little, so the new object will be slightly larger than
the original and will have rounded corners. For your purposes I suggest starting
out with a very thin text object (.0001 for example). If you want to, this can
be used to create a different-colored border around the text. Here's the macro:

#macro CreateBorder_Outer (ObjectToBorder_, Radius_, DeltaTheta_)

   #declare BorderedObject = object {
      union {
         #local Theta = 0;
         #while (Theta < 360)
            object {ObjectToBorder_ translate <cos (radians (Theta)) * Radius_,
sin (radians (Theta)) * Radius_, 0>}
            #local Theta = Theta + DeltaTheta_;
         #end //#while
      } //union
   } //object

#end //macro CreateBorder_Outer

Example:

#local Something = object {text {ttf "Times.ttf" "Hi there." .0001, 0}}

CreateBorder_Outer (Something, .02, 10)

#local SomethingNew = object {
   union {
      object {BorderedObject texture {pigment {color Yellow}}}
      object {Something translate -.0001 * z texture {pigment {color Red}}}
   } //union
} //object

object {SomethingNew}

Just an idea...


Kind regards,
Dave Blandston
Suggested motto: "With POV-Ray anything is possible, but nothing is easy"

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