POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Sparkling water : Re: Sparkling water Server Time
3 Aug 2024 04:15:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sparkling water  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 14 Feb 2007 19:47:22
Message: <45d3ad9a$1@news.povray.org>
Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> But seriously, I tried it and posting that render is unnecessary.
> As was to be expected from the documentation of conserve_energy,
> the render result of
> 
> "pigment {color rgbt 1} finish {reflection 0.1 conserve_energy}"
> 
> turned out absolutely identical to my previous manual fix of
> 
> "pigment {color rgbt 0.9} finish {reflection 0.1}",
> 
> excepting, of course, the random jitter.
> 

As I understand it, it shouldn't be *exactly* identical, because the 
adjustment is done on a per-pixel basis, and the adjustment is varied 
based on the amount of light being reflected.

However, in this case, we probably couldn't tell the difference anyway :)

...Chambers


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