POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Focal blur tricks : Re: Focal blur tricks Server Time
2 Aug 2024 04:16:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Focal blur tricks  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 23 Feb 2008 17:50:09
Message: <47c0a321@news.povray.org>

> "triple_r" <rre### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> I think it would require a direct patch into
>> POV-Ray to fix the problem.
> 
> So with very little effort, here's the result of my patched POV.  It's hardly
> fair to call it that since it's only a couple lines and there's no SDL
> interface for it.  It just reads a grayscale ppm file and varies the density of
> the sample grid according to the image.  You can even tell the difference
> without the strong highlights which makes me wonder why the default is a square
> aperture.  Not quite sure when that would be preferable, but maybe people don't
> use strong focal blur too often.
> 

Did you base your patch on 3.6 or 3.7 code?


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