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From: Ken
Date: 10 Dec 1999 02:14:51
Message: <3850A844.FD2FA7EF@pcabell.net>
For those who might be interested I compiled this list of features
that are now available in MegaPov. Can you say Wow ?


 From UVPov
============

o Motion Blur (new)

o Persistent scenes and persistent variables for animations (new)

o Radiosity improvements (updated)

o Media improvements

o Photon mapping

o Image Pattern

o Reset Children Warp

o Double Illuminate

o Solid Triangle Meshes

o Dispersion (thanks to Daren Wilson)

o New fractal patterns (thanks to Nieminen Juha)

o New Mesh Syntax

o UV (surface) Mapping


 From the SuperPatch
=====================

o Isosurface object

o Function patterns

o Parametric object

o Sphere sweeps

o Rational bezier surface

o New bicubic_patch evaluation

o Splines

o Slope-dependent textures

o Variable, blurred, metallic, and fresnel reflection

o Spherical, cylindrical, toroidal, and planar warps

o Light groups

o Isosufrace pigment funciton

o Unicode font support

o min_extent, max_extent

o trace() function

o new crackle features

o facets pattern


 From the MultiPatch
=====================

o Sphere camera

o area_light improvements

o Isoblob object

o Isosurface enhancements

o Smooth-color triangle mesh

o Another kind of spline

o no_image and no_reflection modifiers

o projected_through modifier (virutual lights)

o Text object alignment

o New patterns (blotches, cells, bands, and sheet)

o Polarical pattern

o Trianglular pattern

o Clock keywords

o Image size keywords

o Turbulence vector

o vtransform()



-- 
Ken Tyler -  1200+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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