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From: Børge Berg-Olsen
Subject: Diamond ring
Date: 31 May 2000 03:54:24
Message: <3934C436.59597EF6@dod.no>
A girl would love to get this... alas, the diamond is too bright, and I
don't understand why. :-(

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From: Moon47
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 31 May 2000 06:09:40
Message: <3933963C.543AAFE0@earthlink.net>
it looks as though it is on fire, glowing, lit intensively from above or all
of the above...

Børge Berg-Olsen wrote:

> A girl would love to get this... alas, the diamond is too bright, and I
> don't understand why. :-(
>
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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 31 May 2000 11:42:12
Message: <slrn8ja3tv.30o.sjlen@zero-pps.localdomain>
The diamond looks way too bright. 
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From: Ross Litscher
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 31 May 2000 13:44:30
Message: <39354f7e@news.povray.org>
> A girl would love to get this... alas, the diamond is too bright, and I
> don't understand why. :-(
>
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> Børge Berg-Olsen

Hey, maybe that is what a diamond looks like to a girl.


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 31 May 2000 20:19:12
Message: <3935ac00@news.povray.org>
Usually 'ignore_photons' is used within a glass (or similar) objects photon statement.
That's what appears to be wrong here.

Bob

"Børge Berg-Olsen" <azo### [at] dodno> wrote in message news:3934C436.59597EF6@dod.no...
| A girl would love to get this... alas, the diamond is too bright, and I
| don't understand why. :-(


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From: Doug Eichenberg
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 31 May 2000 23:11:58
Message: <3935d47e@news.povray.org>
The diamond looks like a light source itself!


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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 1 Jun 2000 11:16:47
Message: <39367E59.780F3E3A@hotmail.com>
Børge Berg-Olsen wrote:
> 
> A girl would love to get this... 

Nice ring.

But the surface seems a little bit uneven.

Is it made of "white" gold ?

> alas, the diamond is too bright, and I
> don't understand why. :-(

The source for the diamond I posted to 
povray.binary.scene-files has several light 
sources strung up inside the diamond shape.

So if that is the code you are using, then just 
use Diamond instead of LitDiamond.

Or just decrease the 0.15 number in the DimLight
declaration to make the lights dimmer.


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From: Sigmund Kyrre Aas
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 4 Jun 2000 15:01:08
Message: <393AA77B.25263E31@kyrre.net>
Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Usually 'ignore_photons' is used within a glass (or similar) objects photon
statement.
> That's what appears to be wrong here.

Diamonds become white in pov for some reason, regardless of photons. The
attached image uses no photons, only difference is max trace: 15 for the
left one and 4 on the right. Any idea why?

    pigment {color rgb <.81,.88,.97> filter .94 }
    interior {
         ior 2.417 
         fade_power 1000 fade_distance 15
    }
    finish { reflection_min .03 reflection_max .5 reflection_falloff 1 }

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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 4 Jun 2000 16:43:48
Message: <nnfljsk5irulssr3p8tasvserfbg6m17tm@4ax.com>
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 21:01:15 +0200, Sigmund Kyrre Aas
<sig### [at] kyrrenet> wrote:

>Diamonds become white in pov for some reason, regardless of photons. The
>attached image uses no photons, only difference is max trace: 15 for the
>left one and 4 on the right. Any idea why?

Any ray that exceeds the max_trace_level is given the background color
which is black by default (but you can change it, of course).


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From: Sigmund Kyrre Aas
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 4 Jun 2000 17:05:06
Message: <393AB1D3.D13C3152@kyrre.net>
Background is black, diamond becomes white as max trace level increases.

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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 4 Jun 2000 17:31:36
Message: <heiljs46cg9lepgrtrfo0gjtlh06bp4pl2@4ax.com>
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 21:45:23 +0200, Sigmund Kyrre Aas
<sig### [at] kyrrenet> wrote:

>Background is black, diamond becomes white as max trace level increases.

Ah, I see... you're not giving it a filter or transmit greater than 1
so that's not the problem... You know what, try using conserve_energy.
I can see how it could be a problem with a lot of TIR taking place.




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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 4 Jun 2000 22:49:45
Message: <393b1549@news.povray.org>
"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote in message
news:heiljs46cg9lepgrtrfo0gjtlh06bp4pl2@4ax.com...
| On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 21:45:23 +0200, Sigmund Kyrre Aas
| <sig### [at] kyrrenet> wrote:
|
| >Background is black, diamond becomes white as max trace level increases.

More of the diamonds' inside showing up due to internal reflection as Peter
has said.

| so that's not the problem... You know what, try using conserve_energy.

I was going to suggest that too.

Bob


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From: Børge Berg-Olsen
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 6 Jun 2000 12:11:51
Message: <393D22AE.84DA29E9@dod.no>
Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> "Peter Popov" <pet### [at] usanet> wrote in message
> news:heiljs46cg9lepgrtrfo0gjtlh06bp4pl2@4ax.com...
> | On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 21:45:23 +0200, Sigmund Kyrre Aas
> | <sig### [at] kyrrenet> wrote:
> |
> | >Background is black, diamond becomes white as max trace level increases.
> 
> More of the diamonds' inside showing up due to internal reflection as Peter
> has said.
> 
> | so that's not the problem... You know what, try using conserve_energy.
> 
> I was going to suggest that too.

Sorry, I've been away with workrelated stuff. Where should the
conserver_energy statment go, and is there any documentation of the
statement?

Thanks! :-)

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Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 6 Jun 2000 14:11:57
Message: <k8ed7lu7k82.fsf@jeeves.stud.ntnu.no>
Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> writes:

> so that's not the problem... You know what, try using conserve_energy.

Aha! So that's what conserve_energy is. Thank you very much. I've made a
low-quality render which looked very promising. (8+1 hours photons+trace)

I'll tweak some more and post it so Steve et al. can have a go with it.

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From: Bryan Valencia
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 6 Jun 2000 14:16:07
Message: <393D3FFF.4AD3A29D@209software.com>
It's POSSESSED!

Børge Berg-Olsen wrote:

> A girl would love to get this... alas, the diamond is too bright, and I
> don't understand why. :-(
>

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Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 6 Jun 2000 14:17:42
Message: <k8eaegy7jyh.fsf@jeeves.stud.ntnu.no>
Børge Berg-Olsen <azo### [at] dodno> writes:

> Sorry, I've been away with workrelated stuff. Where should the
> conserver_energy statment go, and is there any documentation of the

It's a feature of Megapov. You really should get it :)

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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 6 Jun 2000 23:37:22
Message: <393dc372@news.povray.org>
"Sigmund Kyrre Ås" <as### [at] jeevesstudntnuno> wrote in message
news:k8e### [at] jeevesstudntnuno...
| Børge Berg-Olsen <azo### [at] dodno> writes:
|
| > Sorry, I've been away with workrelated stuff. Where should the
| > conserver_energy statment go, and is there any documentation of the
|
| It's a feature of Megapov. You really should get it :)

finish {conserve_energy}  in the objects texture statement  :-)  Just think of
it as a counterpart to 'reflection'.

Bob


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From: Børge Berg-Olsen
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 7 Jun 2000 12:29:40
Message: <393E785D.7ED1B6E2@dod.no>
"Sigmund Kyrre Ås" wrote:
> 
> Børge Berg-Olsen <azo### [at] dodno> writes:
> 
> > Sorry, I've been away with workrelated stuff. Where should the
> > conserver_energy statment go, and is there any documentation of the
> 
> It's a feature of Megapov. You really should get it :)

Duh! :-) I already got it... what do you think I traced the diamond ring
with, eh? My fingers?

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From: Børge Berg-Olsen
Subject: Re: Diamond ring
Date: 7 Jun 2000 12:32:18
Message: <393E78FB.6EA42432@dod.no>
Børge Berg-Olsen wrote:
> 
> "Sigmund Kyrre Ås" wrote:
> >
> > Børge Berg-Olsen <azo### [at] dodno> writes:
> >
> > > Sorry, I've been away with workrelated stuff. Where should the
> > > conserver_energy statment go, and is there any documentation of the
> >
> > It's a feature of Megapov. You really should get it :)
> 
> Duh! :-) I already got it... what do you think I traced the diamond ring
> with, eh? My fingers?

Alas, conserve_energy doesn't seem to help much on the way too bright
diamond. :-/

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