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> Ok, the composition is suspect and the starry background is very obviously
> based on leopard. But this is the first time I've got roughly what I
wanted
> from scattering media. To get smoother shadows I ended up using "samples
> 300,1000" in method 3. The shadow contrast, which I was trying to maximise
> without overbrightening the background, turned out to be highly dependent
> on scattering type and light source position.
>
> (larger version at http://www.zubenelgenubi.34sp.com/graphics/scmed.jpg -
> 170K)
>

Nice media but tell me about artistic license, even in dust clouds, it takes
UA's of depth to get any scattering ;-)

Marc

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