Hello all POV experts
I'm a new user and wold like to create a "glass" sphere with an image on the
surface.
Wandering here and there and reading the documentation, I succeeded in creating
the below added code. It would be nice, apart from the reflection of the bitmap
to the back of the inner surface giving unwanted reflections.
You see I added two image_maps on the front and on the back, shifted 180 deg. to
see in transparency the back of the bitmap on the other side.
Reflection are a catastrophe!!!! What couuld I do? any suggestion?
Thank You
Massimo

Attached the code I used

#include "colors.inc"
#include "skies.inc"

sky_sphere { S_Cloud3 }

camera {
  location <0, 2, -5>
  look_at <0,0, 0>
}

light_source {
  <0, -12, 10>
  color White
  shadowless
  }
light_source {
  <0, 0, -10>
  color White
  shadowless
  }

sphere{ <0,0,0>, 1
  texture{ pigment { color rgbf <0.9, 0.9, 0.9, 0.8> } // transparent sphere
  finish {
        reflection 0.2
        refraction 1.0
        ior 1
        phong 0.4
          }
               } // end of texture 1
  texture{ pigment{
                image_map{ gif "POV-Ray_215.gif"
                        map_type 0
                        once
                        filter all 1
                          }
                 translate<-0.5,-0.2>
                 scale<2.5,1>*0.7
           } // end pigment
  } // end of texture 2
  texture{ pigment{
                image_map{ gif "POV-Ray_215.gif"
                        map_type 0
                        once
                        filter all 1
                          }
                 translate<-0.5,-1>
                 scale<2.5,1>*0.7
                 rotate<0,180,0>
           } // end pigment
  } // end of texture 3
} // end of sphere  ------------------

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