"Gavin" <gav### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use povray to display some scientific data. I have the
> concentration of a drug (as its released from a nanoparticle) as a function
> of x,y and z coordinates. I was trying to display it as a kind of mist. I
> originally tried to have lots of transparent boxes (for each grid point)
> and make them absorb light depending on the concentration. However, I
> seemed to be getting diffraction-like patterns emerging, presumably from
> the edges of all the boxes stacked together (although I don't know how as
> povray doesn't include diffraction). So I tried to use merge to collect all
> the boxes together, but now povrays ground to a halt.
>
> Am I trying to display this data in a really stupid way? Does anyone know a
> better way of doing this?

I think that media and a df3 density file might be one of the ways you could
do this.

Section 3.5.11.11  Density_File

Post a reply to this message