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7 Aug 2024 09:23:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: using an image_map for media density/color  
From: Chambers
Date: 8 Apr 2006 14:35:48
Message: <44380284$1@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message 
news:web.4436e54a72fe66658ad7a9060@news.povray.org...
>I thought I'd try an experiment to see if an image_map with an alpha 
>channel
> could be used for determining the density and color of a media-filled
> object...specifically to try and make the resulting object *look* solid,
> without using a heightfield to do so. Just to see if it was possible.  (I
> may be "re-inventing the wheel" here, rehashing old news. Sorry if that's
> the case.) My original question about this is at....

Hasn't similar work been done using media voxels?  In any case, this looks 
amazing :)

...Chambers


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