POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : 2 suggestions for Megapatch 0.5 : Re: 2 suggestions for Megapatch 0.5 Server Time
2 Sep 2024 10:15:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 2 suggestions for Megapatch 0.5  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 11 Feb 2000 13:31:23
Message: <38a4557b@news.povray.org>
H.E. Day <hed### [at] fcinet> wrote...
> My first suggestion deals with the Soft_Blur feature.  Could someone put
> a
> third value, "tolerance"  to the syntax?  This would be helpful if the
> artist wants only the bright parts to glow. (Like the lights on the
> surface of a spaceship :)  1 would be only the brightest parts and 0
> would be all the picture.

This would be quite easy to implement.  I do want to update the syntax,
though.  Also, glows or other effects could be applied based on the
non-clipped float value (as described by Glenn) or even by an ID that is
tagged on specific objects (not fully implemented yet).

-Nathan


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