Eric Freeman wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm posting these mainly so Mikael Carneholm can see them.  I'm using his
> SmokeGen.inc file to make smoke and it's adding a strange artifact to my
> scene... the glare on the edge of the glass door.  If anybody has a clue as
> to why this is happening, let me know.  The first pic (nosmoke.jpg) is the
> original.  The second pic (smoke.jpg) shows the white glare on the edge of
> the glass door of the stereo/tv cabinet.

This has to be a bug in POV-Ray itself - the only changes SmokeGen does to the
"outer scene" is to set max_trace_level to a value set by the user. This could
be something that occurs with glass & n number of media containers in the same
scene maybe? (just guessing here)

- Mikael.

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Maybe that could also explain why the red line (whatever it is) shows up behind
the glass as well in the affected scene.

Bob

"Mikael Carneholm" <sa9### [at] idautbhbse_NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> Eric Freeman wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm posting these mainly so Mikael Carneholm can see them.  I'm using his
> > SmokeGen.inc file to make smoke and it's adding a strange artifact to my
> > scene... the glare on the edge of the glass door.  If anybody has a clue as
> > to why this is happening, let me know.  The first pic (nosmoke.jpg) is the
> > original.  The second pic (smoke.jpg) shows the white glare on the edge of
> > the glass door of the stereo/tv cabinet.
>
> This has to be a bug in POV-Ray itself - the only changes SmokeGen does to the
> "outer scene" is to set max_trace_level to a value set by the user. This could
> be something that occurs with glass & n number of media containers in the same
> scene maybe? (just guessing here)
>
> - Mikael.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Mikael Carneholm
> Dep. of Computer Science and Business Administration

>
> Personal homepage:
> http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch
> E-mail:
> sa9### [at] idautbhbse
>
>

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"omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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> Maybe that could also explain why the red line (whatever
> it is) shows up behind the glass as well in the affected
> scene.

The red line is the wing of an airplane model.  It was turned off in the
first picture to save parse time.

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I sort of like the effect even if it is a mistake... If it were greenish it
would look great...

Eric Freeman wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm posting these mainly so Mikael Carneholm can see them.  I'm using his
> SmokeGen.inc file to make smoke and it's adding a strange artifact to my
> scene... the glare on the edge of the glass door.  If anybody has a clue as
> to why this is happening, let me know.  The first pic (nosmoke.jpg) is the
> original.  The second pic (smoke.jpg) shows the white glare on the edge of
> the glass door of the stereo/tv cabinet.
>
> Eric
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> "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one
> another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
> pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
> labor the bread it has earned.  This is the sum of good government."
>      - Thomas Jefferson
>      - First inaugural address, 1801
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> This has to be a bug in POV-Ray itself - the only changes SmokeGen does to the
> "outer scene" is to set max_trace_level to a value set by the user. This could
> be something that occurs with glass & n number of media containers in the same
> scene maybe? (just guessing here)

Since max_trace defaults fairly low, could it be that some king of internal glare
shows up that originally was never reached before max_trace?

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"ryan mooney" <rdm### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> I sort of like the effect even if it is a mistake...
> If it were greenish it would look great...

I would too if it didn't run the whole length of the door.  Also, there is
"glare" on the back edge (the side by the hinge) which shouldn't be there.

Eric
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another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned.  This is the sum of good government."
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"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> Since max_trace defaults fairly low, could it be that
> some king of internal glare shows up that originally
> was never reached before max_trace?

I have max_trace set to 512.

Eric
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another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned.  This is the sum of good government."
     - Thomas Jefferson
     - First inaugural address, 1801
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"Eric Freeman" <eri### [at] ametronet> wrote in message
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> "David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
> news:387AB8E5.DCC6CE6F@faricy.net...
> >
> > Since max_trace defaults fairly low, could it be that
> > some king of internal glare shows up that originally
> > was never reached before max_trace?
>
> I have max_trace set to 512.
>
> Eric

Could it be a max_intersections thing?

Bob

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Is that a Talking Heads CD there in the middle of the table
looks like the cover to I think it's 'Slipery People'?

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"Steve" <sjl### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain> wrote in message
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> Is that a Talking Heads CD there in the middle of the table
> looks like the cover to I think it's 'Slipery People'?

Nope... no Talking Heads.  I'm scanning some of my more obscure album covers
and may have a contest to see who can name them.

In the middle of the table there's a tall stack of cd's with Steve Forbert,
"Jackrabbit Slim" and below that is Brand X, "Moroccan Roll."

Eric
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