POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: How to embed a rendered scene inside the scene itself?: Re: How to embed a rendered scene inside the scene itself?

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From: quickfur
Date: 3 Nov 2008 17:00:00
Message: <web.490f74006123294a3f5033310@news.povray.org>

Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> quickfur <qui### [at] quickfurathcx> wrote:
> > I have a scene with some objects, and a thin box representing a screen.
> > How do I texture the box with a rendered image of the scene as seen from
> > the box? I looked at the trace() function, but it only returns the point
> > of intersection, not the color of the intersection.
>
>   scenes/advanced/desk.pov is an example POV-Ray scene which does exactly
> that.
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Ooh, lovely! Using "animation" to recursively embed a scene into itself.
Awesome idea, thanks for the pointer!

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