On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:45:56 -0400, Andrea Ryan <ary### [at] global2000net>
wrote:

>A quote from the official POV-Ray docs.
>Brendan Ryan
>
>Note a strange design side-effect was discovered during testing and it was too
>difficult to fix. If the enclosing object uses transmit rather than filter for
>transparency, then the media casts no shadows. For example:
>
> object{MyObject pigment{rgbt 1.0} interior{media{MyMedia}}} //no shadows
> object{MyObject pigment{rgbf 1.0} interior{media{MyMedia}}} //shadows

Thanks, Brendan, but Samuel said the media casts a shadow on itself so
the container's transparency type is not the matter here. Unless...
unless you mean to give it filter *and* a little transmt? Is that what
you have in mind? I haven't tried it, it might just work.


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