Thomas de Groot wrote:
> That's very close to a textbook pyrite, Sam. Congratulations.

Thank you, Thomas :)

> The only (small) thing that I would dare to say is that maybe the striations 
> appear a bit too strong in some places? Could be the effect of lighting.

There are geometrical striations and striations which are surface 
normals... Which do you mean, do you know? But you're right. I'm leaning 
towards fixing them both, and re-rendering the whole thing now that I 
have the technique down. What I'd *really* like to achieve is that 
accumulative look crystal faces often have... it's kind of like a 
cellular automation where the values have been divided.... I could try 
something in SDL, but I hate to make such a large detour if it doesn't, 
ahem, pan out.

Photons would be nice... But you can't render photons without a visible 
photon target with the new version of POV-Ray. The compositing technique 
relies on having the pyrite cluster invisible at some point. Maybe I can 
render the photons in 3.6... just rambling here :)

Also, I see some triangles showing here and there. Gotta fix all the 
details, and try to pass it off as a photo to a mineral-hunting friend 
of mine >:)

Sam

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