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2 Aug 2024 00:17:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Real Clouds with Real Problems  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 31 Mar 2008 11:34:27
Message: <47f11293$1@news.povray.org>

> 1) When there are two media objects, one inside the other (like your cloud oval
> inside your atmosphere), the larger enclosing sphere's media samples value
> completely overrides the smaller sphere's (and, I believe, its method and
> intervals as well.) You can test this by giving your cloud media samples 1000,
> and your atmosphere samples 1.  It will render lightning fast--and look
> terrible! Reverse the order, and BOTH spheres' media take on samples 1000. Or
> more generally, both spheres' medias seem to be treated as one, samples-wise.

What happens if two spheres intersect, but none is completely inside the 
other? Which sample count remains?


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