In article <3a955c4d@news.povray.org>, Geoff Wedig 
<wed### [at] darwinepbicwruedu> wrote:

> Is the projected_through available now? 

It's been around since the Superpatch days, I think.


> Last I heard, portals only did a pigment, no light through the portal 
> or photons or such.  Has it progressed, then?

No, the projected_through feature has nothing to do with the portal 
patch, it is a light_source feature that allows you to "project" light 
through an object, making light shine through the object.


> One disadvantage that I noticed last night is that I can't use focal 
> blur (post process), because only the summer side gets blurred.  The 
> winter side is all at the mirror distance, rather than its 'true' 
> distance, so doesn't get appropriately blurred.  On the other hand, a 
> portal would have the opposite problem, with only the winter side 
> blurring.

The ordinary focal blur should work fine, though...it would just make 
your scene even slower.

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