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5 Nov 2024 13:24:53 EST (-0500)
  Re: Friday Abstract: "Neurotic"  
From: Jim Charter
Date: 5 Apr 2009 14:07:18
Message: <49d8f356@news.povray.org>
Robert McGregor wrote:
> Jim Charter <jrc### [at] msncom> wrote:
> 
>>Wow that's pretty darned nice.  Image_pattern textures you say?
> 
> 
> Yep, several layered textures all using image_pattern as an opacity modifier for
> glasslike layers. It's the same technique as masking say, a leaf shape, but
> instead of just black and white I'm using the various levels of gray in a
> grayscale image for the transmit values in the texture_map.
> 
> Using an ior of 1.5 here; stacking several layers of these with some granite
> normals to break up the smoothness of the "glass" can provide some weird
> patterns and interesting stacked refractions...
> 
> 
> 
Brilliant!


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