POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Shape Samplers : Re: Shape Samplers Server Time
15 Aug 2024 00:19:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Shape Samplers  
From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Date: 18 Aug 2002 23:53:57
Message: <Xns926F3B61AFB81raf256com@204.213.191.226>
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in
news:chr### [at] netplexaussieorg 

>> Well not bad, since this scene is simple - how about some effects
>> like area light, photons, maybe radiosity, to show power of POV ?
> Since he is using 3.1, he doesn't have photons and the radiosity is
> much worse. 

I was alsow as YOu suggesting switching to 3.5

> And I don't see why area lights, radiosity, or photons
> would have any place in a shape demo scene.
area_light - soft shadows
photons - reflections from few of this shapes
I write _maybe_ radiosity because imho it's effect will not be nottacible 
(unles i.e. changing scene to indor
 
> It is fine just for a preview of the scenes. This isn't an IRTC
> entry... 

here I ofcourse agree

-- 
#macro g(U,V)(.4*abs(sin(9*sqrt(pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))))*pow(1-min(1,(sqrt(
pow(x-U,2)+pow(y-V,2))*.3)),2)+.9)#end#macro p(c)#if(c>1)#local l=mod(c,100
);g(2*div(l,10)-8,2*mod(l,10)-8)*p(div(c,100))#else 1#end#end light_source{
y 2}sphere{z*20 9pigment{function{p(26252423)*p(36455644)*p(66656463)}}}//M


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