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Angelo 'kENpEX' Pesce <ken### [at] uniplan it> wrote:
:> You can already do blurred reflection (see my other post where I show
:>an example). You can also make blurred refraction currently as well.
: I know, but as U can read in another reply, you can do it via a trick,
: and I don't know why I should do that via a trick...
Because besides being approximately as fast as in megapov (and in special
cases even faster) it gives a better result and is more versatile?
In the dragon image I used just 15 "samples" for the blurred reflection.
In Megapov that would have been way too low (the result would probably have
been really grainy). In Megapov I probably would have to bump up the samples
to something like 50, and that would have made it really slow...
With this "trick" I also have more freedom to modify the blurring (eg. I
could make it blur more in one direction than in another, which I think is
just not possible with the megapov blurred reflection).
It also allows me to use blurred refraction for the same price (while in
megapov it had to be a completely different patch).
Sure, it takes more writing, but I don't really mind. I like the versatility.
: Actually someone proposed to make a .NET tool... I think that a java
: tool will be really good, as java has networking features and it's
: portable and secure for that
That sounds like a third-party external tool, not something to be implemented
in the core povray code.
: So at last I think I made a reasonable wish list here... Who knows,
: mabye someone of the pov-team will listen to my wishes somedays...
I don't want to depress you, but I think that all of those features have
been suggested many many times before and the team is well-aware of them... :)
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