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  Re: Amethyst Ring  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 13 Sep 2012 06:20:14
Message: <5051b35e$1@news.povray.org>
On 13/09/12 01:48, James Holsenback wrote:
> Just playing around with photons. I couldn't get the light angle to
> show photons from the stone, when I did the gold just didn't look
> right (angle too low). The stone and band have separate photon blocks
> ... stone has target/refraction/reflection/caustics/dispersion ...
> the band just reflection. I guess that's okay because I like how the
> photons off the band looks on the tile ground plane. Look closer and
> you can see some caustics/dispersion in the stone.

   Nice design! ...perhaps a bit dangerous, with all these spikes. :)

   Did you try changing the orientation of the ring respect to the light?
I mean, right now, the stone mostly faces the light, so the photons must
be all on the back of it, out of view...

--
Jaime


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