POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Sea Shells : Re: Sea Shells Server Time
30 Jul 2024 12:26:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Sea Shells  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 29 Nov 2011 03:20:41
Message: <4ed495d9$1@news.povray.org>
On 28-11-2011 16:07, clipka wrote:
> Am 28.11.2011 13:24, schrieb Jim Holsenback:
>
>>> The interior is perhaps a bit too much like silver? It could maybe use
>>> some iridescence.
>>>
>>> ...
>>
>> Thanks, great minds think alike ... after I'd posted, iridescence came
>> to mind.
>
> To be honest I wouldn't recommend. Iridescence has always been broken
> (and hasn't been fixed) in several respects, being very troublesome with
> advanced lighting conditions (e.g. it doesn't respect the falloff of
> spotlights). You may be better off with an AOI-based texture.

That's a thought indeed. I did not remember the status of iridescence in 
version 3.7, but aoi would do fine I guess.

Thomas


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