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4 Oct 2024 09:15:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wash out problem?  
From: Bob Hughes
Date: 8 Apr 1999 03:32:06
Message: <370C4D42.BD2E090B@aol.com>
Yep, focal blur causes "wash out" alright, been brought up before. Not
sure if POV 3.1e has this fixed or not.


Charles Krause wrote:
> 
> I figured it was about time to learn how to USE Povray rather than just
> tinker with it :)
> To that end I've been experimenting with camera settings, and I noticed a
> problem. If you look at the two scenes below, the only difference between
> them is the aperture setting on the camera ( 0.0 vs. 0.4 ), yet the image
> with focal blur is 'washed out'. Both are using Radiosity ( standard setting
> 5 ) and an area light, and both have anti-aliasing set to 0.3 - although the
> focal blur feature seems to disable this when the aperture is >0. Is there a
> way to prevent this washout without turning all the lights down? I apologize
> if I'm just missing some simple setting that's in the documentation, but I
> can't find it ATM :) I'm impressed both with the level of realism that focal
> blur and radiosity add to an image, and the hit my rendering time takes :)
> 
>  [Image]
> 
>  [Image]

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