It's just as I thought..... and I should have done it in the first 
place! The solution was obvious..... why hasn't it been done before? At 
least I learned a few things from my blob fiasco.

What I'm talking about is the fact that subsurface scattering is 20 
times more easy to implement in mlPOV than the official version. The 
results are slightly faster and smoother, too. The image you see was 
created by the code below:

#declare lpos1=<.5,1,3.25>*100000;

light_source{lpos1,<1.6 1.6 1.1> }

plane{y,-6.75 pigment{bumps scale 25 turbulence .5 lambda 3 poly_wave 
.6} normal{granite .2}}

#declare obj=
  union{
   torus{6,1}
   torus{6,1 rotate z*90}
   torus{6,1 rotate x*90}
   sphere{0,6}
  }

object{
  obj
  pigment{ average
   pigment_map{
    #local V=0;
    #while(V<100)
     [1 projection obj ,lpos1 blur .2,10
      translate<rand(R)-rand(R),rand(R)-rand(R),rand(R)-rand(R)>*2
      color_map { [0 rgb 1][1 rgb 0] }
     ]
     #local V=V+1;
    #end
   }
  }
  finish{diffuse 0 ambient 1
   specular .5 roughness .05
  }
}

-- 
Samuel Benge

stb### [at] hotmailcom
See my website@: http://www.goldrush.com/~abenge/Top/index.html

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