I find focal blur hard to work with, too, in every other situation.  In fact,
my use of blur is only because I don't like such sharp images that happen w/o
focal blur, even just a smidge.

-Law

Steve wrote:

> On Fri, 03 May 2002 16:25:08 -0500, Lawrence Winstead wrote:
>
> > Well this is my first post to the newsgroup... I think.  I may have
> > posted something back in college, but I can't recall.  In any case, this
> > was cranked out in about 30 minutes in Moray (which is kinda saying
> > something - for me) and rendered in MegaPov 0.7.
>
> Hi Lawrence, welcome aboard.  This is a really nicely balanced first image.
>
> > I seem to have the radiosity somewhat correct on the first try, with the
> > entire "sky" sphere being ambient of 1.
> >
> > I dunno.  Comments?  Criticism?  Am I just too far behind?
>
> Nobody is ever too far behind, and nobody is way ahead of the rest, though
> some people chose a subject/area and specialise in that area.  I've been
> using POV for five years and have never got focal blur to work, so you're
> ahead of me on that already:-)
>
> Keep up the good work.
>
> --
> #local i=.1;#local I=(i/i)/i;#local l=(i+i)/i;#local ll=(I/i)/l;box{<-ll,
> -((I/I)+l),-ll><ll,-l,ll>pigment{checker scale l}finish{ambient((I/l)/I)+
> (l/I)}}sphere{<i-i,l-l,(I/l)>l/l pigment{rgb((I/l)/I)}finish{reflection((
> I/l)/I)-(l/I)specular(I/l)/I}}light_source{<I-l,I+I,(I-l)/l>l/l} // Steve

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