Well you're right that perfectly smooth surfaces look more artificial, but it's
also a desirable quality in automobiles :)

The compressed contrast range should be handled pretty realistically by the HDR,
though at some point I'll try megapov's film response curve simulation which
should make it possible to simulate accurately.

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"Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
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> > Just like real cars the reflection would be perfectly sharp.
>
> Huh, it's sharp?  :o)  Well.. perhaps.. I haven't thought about it, except
> that sharp reflections in computer renderings tend to look unnatural.. But
> thinking about it, this may also be due to a compressed range of contrast.
> That's why we have the reflection_exponent keyword in newer versions of
> POV-Ray (although it's still not the real solution).
>
> Regards,
> Hugo
>
>

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