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2 Aug 2024 16:25:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wood screws  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 12 May 2007 14:22:49
Message: <464605f9$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v3 wrote:

> The wood grain looks painted on. But it looks like *real paint* on a 
> *real table*. Perhaps one of those plastic vineers they like to put on 
> chipboard to make it look like wood. And the screws look awsome...
> 
Yes and no.  In the highlight, where the specular actually shows up the 
grain, the surface is clearly tactile, but the flattening in the 
pneumbra areas is quite pronounced.  One of those circumstances where 
realistic effects don't necessarily look as we expect I guess.


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