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  Re: some special kind of glass (sorry, I don't know the english word for it...ground glass?);  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:50:16
Message: <slrn8gbucl.4u6.ron.parker@linux.parkerr.fwi.com>
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 21:30:49 +0200, Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:
>
>I'd like to produce some kind of street lamp, but it has some special kind
>of glass (somebody said 'ground glass', but I'm still not sure, if it's the
>right name), I can't produce...

'round here, we call that frosted glass.  It's not that easy to get right
in POV, but you can fake it with either media (tricky, and prone to failure)
or a very small normal pattern with heavy nonadaptive antialiasing.  Your
render times will go through the roof, though.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.


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