POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Philosophical objection to fog distance=0 : Re: 3.1g & 3.5 bug report Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:15:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3.1g & 3.5 bug report  
From: Greg M  Johnson
Date: 7 Nov 2001 08:44:05
Message: <3BE93A30.705E85@aol.com>
Warp wrote:

> Greg M. Johnson <"gregj;-)56590\""@aol.c;-)om> wrote:
> : Distance=0 ought to be allowed, imho, and give  100% color of fog.
>
>   Wouldn't that be in contradiction with the documentation?
>
> "If the intersection depth equals the fog distance the final color consists
> of 64% of the object's color and 36% of the fog's color."

IIMSF,  I have no idea what that sentence is saying, but I can make sense of
the equation.
I think that the proposed change to the equation would give an intuitively
pleasing response to what you'd think of if the "visibility were zero" in a
fog.


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