The blue one has me lost but the gray(?) one looks much more like light shining
onto a surface below another.  Either that or I'm seeing it like I know I ought
to be seeing it.

Bob

"Greg M. Johnson" <"gregj;-)56590\""@aol.c;-)om> wrote in message
news:38d65fee@news.povray.org...
| Bob Hughes wrote:
|
| > The abstract look to this makes it difficult to compare to an actual
swimming
| > pool, especially considering there would be so many different thoughts on
what
| > one would look like with there being such a variety.  The tiles are what I
would
| > expect to see only along the upper edge if anywhere.
| > What I wondered most, where is the dappled light on the bottom of the pool
if
| > this were outdoors in sunshine.  So it looks like an indoor pool to me.  If
| > there is 'photons' being applied in this I can't discern so.
| > Sorry if I sound only skeptical.
| >
|
| Yeah, the tiles aren't too much like a real pool.  The blue splotches are an
| intentional effect from the noise3d pattern.
|
| Point well taken on the artistic effect, but I think it's more a case of
technical
| overkill than omission. Here is the same scene with a white plane instead of
my
| tiles.  I either used caustics only or refleciton only with my photons.
(Smaller
| kbbu's this time!)
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