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30 Jul 2024 06:25:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Amethyst Ring  
From: James Holsenback
Date: 13 Sep 2012 10:47:18
Message: <5051f1f6$1@news.povray.org>
On 09/13/2012 06:20 AM, Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> 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
>

for sure there's a better angle in there somewhere ... I'll just have to 
summon the patience (not much of that these days) to find it. thanks for 
the feedback :-)


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