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18 Aug 2024 06:18:50 EDT (-0400)
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From: Tom Melly
Date: 12 Jun 2001 17:40:59
Message: <3b268c6b@news.povray.org>
Sander wrote in message ...
>In article <3b26409c@news.povray.org>, Tom Melly says...
>> my first photons....
>>
>I like the structure of the wall in the back! How did you do it?
>:o)

In these days of iso-surfaces and all sorts of new-fangled gizmos, that
would be the poor neglected agate normal (or were you being ironic? ;)

Ah, the poor normals. Relegated to walk-ons and crowd scenes - their stars
eclipsed by younger functions - who are badly behaved louts on the whole,
for all their modern appeal. Demanding thousands of parameters, and
exhibiting many flaws off-screen, before a satisfactory performance can be
coaxed from them. Sure they've got depth. Sure they've got outlines. But
where is the simple charm of yesteryear?

I'll stop now.


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