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: Mark Birch
Date: 3 Nov 2008 18:40:01
Message: <web.490f8b426123294a4daddc090@news.povray.org>

"quickfur" <qui### [at] quickfurathcx> wrote:
> 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.
> [...]
>
> Ooh, lovely! Using "animation" to recursively embed a scene into itself.
> Awesome idea, thanks for the pointer!

Megapov has a 'camera_view' pigment which should do exactly this, without the
need for animation.

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