POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Playing with Photons : Re: Playing with Photons Server Time
2 Aug 2024 02:20:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Playing with Photons  
From: Alain
Date: 25 Mar 2008 09:35:47
Message: <47e90dc3$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Sobers nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2008/03/24 19:59:
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> 
>> He clearly say the the effect *ONLY* apears when using *BOTH* radiosity AND
photons.
>> NO effect using only radiosity.
>> NO effect using only photons.
> 
> And here's one the same (no photons, no radiosity, no media) with max_gradient
> dropped to 10 (as opposed to 60 previously).   The maximum gradient reported
> was 52.950. The problem is worse with lower max_gradient, but appears to be of
> similar form.  Shouldn't setting max_gradient higher than the maximum gradient
> of the function fix the problem?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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> 
The artefacts seems to be related to the max_gradient, BUT, they are not holes 
in the isosurface. Tested with interior_texture{pigment rgb y}finish{ambient 1}} 
and there are no green pixels.


-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when people around you are astounded by 
the computer-animated tails they put on babies in The X-Files. You complain that 
it looks fake because they didn't bother to put in the tails' shadows.
Jeff Lee


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