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  Re: media oriented patterns?  
From: Tom Melly
Date: 6 Mar 2001 06:34:12
Message: <3aa4cb34@news.povray.org>
"jrg" <xor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3aa4c310$1@news.povray.org...
> I think it would be nice to have media-oriented patterns in order to
easily
> get some volumetric effect like smoke (does anyone saw the smoke pattern
in
> Lightflow?) It's so hard to make it work with common pov patterns...
> thanks in advance,
>                         JRG.
>

Well, it's not as straightforward as one would like, but Kevin Wampler (+
some rewrites by Mick Hazelgrove)came up with some nice cloud code using a
blob-density pigment function that might be the kind of thing you are after.

Posted to text.scenefiles as "media for jrg" (mp6)


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