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From: Stefan Viljoen
Date: 12 May 2005 02:14:40
Message: <4282f450@news.povray.org>
The right honourable Bill penned on Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:27:

> Stefan Viljoen <spa### [at] polardcom> wrote:
>> The right honourable Bill penned on Tuesday 10 May 2005 17:56:
>>
>> > Greetings everyone.
>> >
>> > Been watching the discourse for a while, and there's some fantastic
>> > work on show here. I thought I'd make a humble contribution along the
>> > usual lines. Reflective balls on a checkered plane - check!
>>
>> Not bad! Did you use HDRI or just a high reflection value?
> 
> reflection { 1.0 } ambient 0 diffuse 0 ...and a bit of phong. Black
> pigment, of course. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I know what HDRI
> is...!
> 
> Bill

I'm not sure myself, but it seems to enable you to do ultra-realistic
reflections. Yours looked like an implementation of that. Nice image,
still.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions


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