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  Color changes depending on direction  
From: Pabs
Date: 8 Feb 2002 03:20:41
Message: <3c638a59@news.povray.org>
For a while now I have been seeing cars* with paint jobs such that if you
look at them from one angle & then from another the colour changes. The ones
I have seen are purple at the front, fading to orange around the sides (not
sure if this the best way to describe this). It is like the colour is
dependent on the difference between the angle of the observer and the
surface normal?

Anyone else seen these cars/know how they do it?
Maybe something similar to iridescence?

I'm thinking that in POV u might be able to get this effect by some
combination of fresnel & metallic & metallic reflection.

Bye,
Pabs
*in fact one of my neighbours has one in their driveway
either ford or commodore - not sure & not big on cars


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