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28 Sep 2024 21:22:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Upgrading POV-Ray's include files #1: granites.inc-->granites21.inc  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 17 Apr 2021 02:14:08
Message: <607a7cb0$1@news.povray.org>
Op 16/04/2021 om 19:17 schreef Bald Eagle:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> I find the
>> result too reflective and really difficult to manage correctly. The hue
>> changes dramatically with changes to the reflection value or the
>> specular albedo block.
> 
> Whoa.  That's super shiny.  It looks like polished marble dipped in
> polyurethane.
> 
> It took me while of looking over the surface to understand that what I thought
> might be some weird artefact is actually the reflection of the edge of your
> curved plane and the sky_sphere.
> 
> This would be a great texture to apply to make wet granite - maybe a bird bath
> or a fountain or something.  I'm sure it would look interesting to texture an
> isosurface with this and apply a few off-center radial sine-waves.
> 

See? In another post I've (sic) ;-) mentioned "serendipity" and... there 
we are!

Excellent suggestion! I shall put this in another file for later.

[where are my Round Tuits...? I really, I mean: Really, need more Round 
Tuits...]

-- 
Thomas


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