"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> schreef in bericht 
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>  IMO the image would lose most of its appeal and artistic feeling
> without the focal blur. In other words, the image would be rather
> *boring* without the ingenious blurring. I think the blurring is spot-on.
>
>  Rather curiously, the blurring makes it look like there *is* some kind
> of background in there (it's just completely blurred out). Without the
> blurring it would just look like an object on a completely empty white
> background.

...which shows how differently people can see the same scene. Which is 
allright of course.

I have said it earlier in these ng's: I am not really enthousiastic about 
focal blur in general, whether in ray tracing or (more especially) in 
photography. I still think one should use it very carefully and with a very 
light touch indeed.

Thomas

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