Just my ha'penthworth on the transparency/filter dichotomy.

    I've always thought of 'filter' as being the effect caused by transparent
plastic, whereas 'transparency' would be caused by putting many very small
holes in an opaque plastic.

    I find this helps me visualize where I need to use each.

    Bye for now,
        Mike Andrews.

Spider wrote:

> Hmm, i'm now really caught in this seemingly simple thing of
> transparency.
> Here is another scene.
> TopLeft is transmitting, TopRight is Filtering
> Lowleft is more transmitting than filtering (2/3 to 1/3)
> Lowright is more filtering than transmitting (2/3 to 1/3)
>
> it is an orthographic camera( I wanted to learn it, and I did :-)
>
> I used a blueish colour as base this time.
> ----------

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> #declare life = rand(seed(42))*sqrt(-1);
>
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>  [Image]

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