POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Running to 3.5 : Re: Running to 3.5 Server Time
17 Aug 2024 16:13:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Running to 3.5  
From: Ross Litscher
Date: 10 Sep 2001 14:53:25
Message: <3b9d0c25$1@news.povray.org>
i don't recall seeing the original, but this is very good. especially the
water.

>
>   Here is a 3.5 translated and enhanced version of the splash image. I
> thought that having a 3.1 scene as splash for the 3.5 version was rather
> retrograde. Translation was easy: change #version 3.1 to 3.5. :) But I
> also "enhanced" it by replacing the old tricks with the new features:
>
>   + Water texture uses now variable reflection and interior fade
>   + The tricky underwater fog is replaced with scattering media
>   + Removed the "camera-mounted" light and used evenly distributed
>     lights on the sky
>
>   All the other differences must come from different behavior on 3.5
> (like noise generator). I still need to adapt the gradient for the wet
> zone on the rocks, but what do you think? Do you like it better than the
> current splash? Or perhaps I lost the original "spirit"?
>
> --
> Jaime Vives Piqueres
>
> La Persistencia de la Ignorancia
> http://www.ignorancia.org/


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