POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Strange media effect. (20kbu) : Re: Strange media effect. (20kbu) Server Time
4 Nov 2024 13:32:17 EST (-0500)
  Re: Strange media effect. (20kbu)  
From: Peter Popov
Date: 3 Aug 2000 17:10:35
Message: <nu0jos4spbijc1m8ogvvsioqn53tnb8200@4ax.com>
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:55:03 -0800, "David Heys" <sou### [at] gcinet>
wrote:

>> If anyone can tell me what the problem is, I will be very grateful.
>
>Your problem lies in trying to get absorption, emission and scattering all
>in the same media statement. You need to declare each media type separately
>within the interior statement. I've listed out below how to get it to work.

Using emission, absorption and scattering in a single media statement
is perfectly legal. However, they will share the same density which
will render them rather useless (unless the density is totally
unsaturated, color-wise).

>BTW, having all three really slows things down. 

Only true a) for scattering and b) for separate media statements.


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