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30 Jul 2024 00:25:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: first attempt  
From: Sean Day
Date: 25 Apr 2013 18:36:56
Message: <5179b008$1@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:
> The flower looks pretty good to me! Maybe a little bit of phong highlighting
> would help (unless the flower is supposed to be one of those non-glossy,
> micro-fuzzy kind of things.) The scene is very pretty--peaceful and Zen-like.
>
> I'm curious why the flower stem seems to disappear in one section; a trick of
> the vase's IOR?
>
> I haven't played around with Sculptris in awhile, but it's a great app (I have
> one of the betas from more than a year ago--time to update it.)
>
>
>

It would appear that the stem disappearing is completely down to the 
IOR. I removed the normal and it still disappears. It looked very odd so 
I rendered the scene from above and confirmed the stem is indeed in the 
vase as expected..

Sean


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