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2 Aug 2024 14:18:15 EDT (-0400)
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From: Alain
Date: 30 Jun 2007 10:32:01
Message: <46866961@news.povray.org>
Charles C nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/06/29 14:04:
> I'm not sure if this variation is much better.
> 
> I think the white here looks a little flat.  Is there a trick to getting
> highlights to show up on white?  Yellow looked flat too.
> 
> A checker pattern between <1,.5,1> and <0,0,0> was the pattern used to help
> control the overall-chroma that I'd been feeding into the macro which
> selects which texture each scale uses, (the macro only cares about the
> ..y/green value for this pattern). But when I switched to using that pigment
> directly the color reminded me of the plastic spoons at a certain chain of
> ice-cream shops.  OTOH highlights did show up pretty well on that color.
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
> 
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> 
Don't use white but a light gray, like Gray80 or Gray90.
Reduce the diffuse a bit and increase specular or phong.
Increase brilliance.

-- 
Alain
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'No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.'' -- Dr. Who


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