In article <38F3E638.AC081566@aol.com>, "SamuelT." <STB### [at] aolcom> 
wrote:

> I think maybe increasing the ambient will give it the appearance of being 
> less dense, as well as lowering the diffuse.

My reasoning was that ambient makes it visible without light falling on 
it, similar to emitting media.


> > The brilliance will vary the amount of "scattering" dependant on angle. 
> > At least, I think it should, it has in my other tests of this sort.
> 
> Good idea.

Hmm, turns out that because of the different directions the surfaces 
point in(I used planar surfaces in my experiments), the results are not 
always what you expect. I had some interesting results by placing a 
light_source right in the middle of the smoke, though...

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