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From: ryan constantine
Date: 10 Sep 2000 01:29:42
Message: <39BB1C4F.32DEA202@yahoo.com>
are any of the finite types able to occupy only one pixel (or there
abouts)?  i'm looking for sparks at a distance, where they look like
points of light and don't give off much glow halo.

Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <39bad815@news.povray.org>, "Tony[B]"
> <ben### [at] panamac-comnet> wrote:
> 
> > It looks like you've managed to make the glows finite. Is it so? Have you
> > had any success clipping them?
> 
> I cheated. It just doesn't calculate the glow amount information outside
> of a certain radius(though it still has to do some of the calculations
> to find the distance). If you choose a radius that is too small, you get
> a sudden circular transition from glow to nothing.
> Type 2 glows are finite, though, and I will probably add another two
> finite types.
> 
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