"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
st, our brains seem to make it so!)
>
> I think the tendency of POV-Ray scenes to look like miniatures is completely
> down to the artist. It can be tricky to achieve realism but the fact is, if
> you take simple lighting and geometry and then slap the default focal blur
> settings on it, it won't look realistic. Time and effort are required...
> :-) IMO, people tend to overuse focal blur, and frequently use it in scenes
> that do not warrant it.

Most definitely. Far too many blurred-spheres-on-checkered-planes.  :-p  But
seriously, it does seem to be overused, more as an "effect" (albeit a
realistic one) than as an artistic/aesthetic addition to a scene.
>
> I think I see what you're getting at with your proposed foreground-only
> blur, but you should be able to achieve this effect with the existing
> algorithm.

I'll give it a try.

KW

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