Warp wrote:
> I have the feeling that POV-Ray still has some
> problems of radiosity being different from render to render...)

I have never noticed this but there still seems to be some
problems with scale and directional bias.

 
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Kari Kivisalo <ray### [at] engineercom> wrote:
: While solving this one you introduced another problem.
: It's not realistic anymore :)

  Isn't that quite subjective?
  What makes it so unrealistic in your opinion?

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Warp wrote:
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>   What makes it so unrealistic in your opinion?

I ment it's not a simulation anymore when parameters
are bent at will. The image can _look_ realistic even
if it's not a realistic simulation :) 

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Rune wrote:
>
> You made a good-looking and convincing workaround, but in cases where
> complete realism is vital, such a workaround is not good enough I think.

I believe Gilles too has employed this trick with great success.
You know, as long as the image looks good...

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"Jari Juslin" <zds### [at] ikifi> wrote in message news:3BC788B5.5A8A0B70@iki.fi...
> Kari Kivisalo wrote:
> > You just described a scene where dynamic range compression
> > should perform well. Another way is to design the lighting
> > to limited contrast ratio.
>
> Is there still no other program than full version of Photoshop that can
> do it? If so, is the algorithm how difficult or un-known or patented? If
> the algorithm is available somewhere, it shouldn't be very difficult to
> write a little app to do that compression.
>
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Corel PhotoPaint is free for Linux
from corel.com...

- Nekar


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