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17 Aug 2024 08:21:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ron's blurred reflection trick works quite well  
From: Andrew
Date: 22 Oct 2001 09:21:44
Message: <3bd41d68@news.povray.org>
I think this is because the left hand one of the green shapes in
question is actually casting a shadow over that bit of the ball.


Tom Melly <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
news:3bd40dc4@news.povray.org...
> "Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3bd3efff@news.povray.org...
> >   I made this image using Ron's blurred reflection trick and Rune's
hint
> > (of scaling the normals very big instead of very small) and it works
quite
> > well.
> >   It took 32 minutes to render in a 600MHz Sun Blade (with +a0.1).
> >
> >   The source code follows the image.
> >
>
> There's an odd discontinuity on the lower-right silver ball - the
reflection of
> the space between the two green shapes seems very different from the
reflection
> either side...
>
>


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