Here's a couple "crushed velvet" pictures that can be done in POV-Ray 3.0*,
thanks to some people at AOL with plenty of helpful ideas.  Maybe not perfect
but it's faked okay imo  :-)

Bob

"Peter Warren" <int### [at] halcyoncom> wrote in message
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| To answer the question I think the difference is
| very noticeable.
|
| Please allow me this small digression.
| The textural quality of the blinn image
| struck me as similar to the shader
| SHW_velvet (by Stephen H. Westin).
|
| Attached is an image using this shader.
| (Made with BMRT a great, but IMNSHO,
|  too complex for the average person
|  program.)

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