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30 Jul 2024 22:28:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: selective transparency of objects  
From: kike
Date: 30 Apr 2008 06:45:00
Message: <web.48184cb7890aaf24be7bfb550@news.povray.org>
"Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote in message
> news:481844dc$1@news.povray.org...
> >
> > You could fairly simply achieve something pretty similar if you can define
> > the shape of your 'transparent' object as a prism with the outline of the
> > shape as it would appear from the camera position.
>
> BTW. You can define a prism with the outline of more or less any shape you
> can define in POV-Ray by rendering an image of it with sufficient contrast,
> loading the bitmap image into Inkscape, using 'Path', 'Trace Bitmap' and
> saving as a POV-Ray prism object.
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.

Thanks Chris, you gave me the clue. It was simpler than I thought, the answer
for my particular problem is to use CGS (difference). As simpler than that.
Actually now I see it is a quite stupid question, jajaja, look at this
www.enriquesahagun.es/cgsperiment.avi

thanks again!!!


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