With the official release of POV-Ray v3.0 was an example scene file
from Dan Farmer illustrating the new atmosphere feature. The scene
file is called "Matches". When the POV-Team dropped the atmosphere
feature in favor of the media feature in POV-Ray v3.1 they had to
discontinue distributing that file because it was not compatible.

With the addition of the method 3 media in MegaPov I thought I would
see if I could revive that long lost file and below you will find the
results of my efforts. While there are some very minor differences I
am for the most part satisfied with results. The surprising part was
how little time it took me to modify the scene to work with media. I
would say my development time was not much more than about 45 min. and
most of that was time spent in the render -> evaluate cycles.

Render time 3 hrs. 640x480 aa 0.3 on a 200 Mhz pentium

I don't have the render stats for the atmoshphere version but it was
at least as long if not longer.

MatchesA.jpg = with Atmosphere
MathcesM.jpg = with Media Method 3

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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