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From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 20 Mar 2009 03:45:56
Message: <49c349b4$1@news.povray.org>
"sooperFoX" <bon### [at] gmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:web.49c338cfab29f12e3e3c08aa0@news.povray.org...
> "Cousin Ricky" <ric### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> I get an odd sense from the form of the sand that's difficult to 
>> describe.  It's
>> almost as if the sand were piled onto the face of the computer monitor 
>> instead
>> of drifting on the floor of the scene.  It seems most pronounced in the
>> foreground.
>
> I think that's probably due to insufficient level of anti-aliasing leaving 
> too
> much grain where you shouldn't really be able to see it. And, there's not
> really much shading/shadowing on the side of mounds facing away from the 
> light.

Yes, that is probably the reason. Micro normals used here of course, asking 
for a finner aa. Still, the sand willget eventually a major overhaul.

Thomas


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