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  Re: v3.1 PovRay does Volume Rendering !?  
From: Jim Kress
Date: 19 Jul 1998 12:44:17
Message: <35b21451.0@news.povray.org>
Which demo?

Jim


PoD wrote in message <35B### [at] merlinnetau>...
>Jim Kress wrote:
>>
>> From some of the threads concerning the new POV version, I have gotten
the
>> idea that v3.1 will allow VOLUME rendering via the DENSITY object.  Is
this
>> correct?  For example, I generate a cubical volume in space in which I
have
>> regions of varying density.  At every <x(i),y(i),z(i)> point I have an
>> associated density value, d(i).  Can I now use v3.1 to specify these
density
>> values across the entire cube to POV and it will generate a rendered
image
>> of the volume with shading of various volumes (collection of voxels)
>> determined by the light passing through and/ or reflecting from/ absorbed
by
>> each voxel?
>>
>> Jim
>
>Apparently so. Not actually a density object but an interior media type.
>There's a demo of this in the beta package.  Note though, that where the
>density file name is specified, I had to modify it to include the full
>path name of the file (it's in the include directory), I've heard that
>others have had this problem as well.
>
>Cheers, PoD.


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