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In the first image, the portal is the sphere in the middle...the "far
end" of the portal is just a larger sphere surrounding the scene.
The second image is a small, closed room with a portal to an open area.
The room is lit entirely by light from the portal. As you see, no direct
light can pass through the portal...one of the limitations of my patch.
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This'd be great for doing cubist work.
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[This followup was posted to povray.binaries.images and a copy was sent
to the cited author.]
In article <chrishuff-7CBC3C.17374621012001@news.povray.org>,
chr### [at] mac com says...
> In the first image, the portal is the sphere in the middle...the "far
> end" of the portal is just a larger sphere surrounding the scene.
> The second image is a small, closed room with a portal to an open area.
> The room is lit entirely by light from the portal. As you see, no direct
> light can pass through the portal...one of the limitations of my patch.
>
Could you please explain to a mere mortal person what is shown in your
'portal' images??
What is a portal?
I have the feeling I miss something important here :)
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In article <MPG### [at] NEWS POVRAY ORG>, Sander Stols
<san### [at] stols com> wrote:
> Could you please explain to a mere mortal person what is shown in your
> 'portal' images??
> What is a portal?
> I have the feeling I miss something important here :)
Hmm...well, you know what a wormhole is? And I'm not talking about the
kind made by slimy burrowing invertebrates...I mean the relative to
black holes.
The portal pigment basically links one area of space to another...kind
of a "magic mirror" effect. You can see into a different area by looking
into the portal, and you can set things up so you see the portal itself
through the portal, producing a "hall of mirrors" effect. However, this
is done by changing the color of a pigment to what would be visible
through that point on the portal.
You will also be able to set it up to act like a video monitor showing
output from a camera, a less interesting but probably more practical
application.
If you have trouble visualizing it, don't worry...it gives me headaches,
and I'm still not quite sure why type 0 works. Or sure that it does.
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In article <chrishuff-F48A36.17143522012001@news.povray.org>,
chr### [at] mac com says...
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> Hmm...well, you know what a wormhole is?
Yes
> And I'm not talking about the
> kind made by slimy burrowing invertebrates...I mean the relative to
> black holes.
> The portal pigment basically links one area of space to another...kind
> of a "magic mirror" effect. You can see into a different area by looking
> into the portal, and you can set things up so you see the portal itself
> through the portal, producing a "hall of mirrors" effect. However, this
> is done by changing the color of a pigment to what would be visible
> through that point on the portal.
I don't see where the pigment comes in. How can a pigment link one thing
to another?
> You will also be able to set it up to act like a video monitor showing
> output from a camera, a less interesting but probably more practical
> application.
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> If you have trouble visualizing it, don't worry...it gives me headaches,
> and I'm still not quite sure why type 0 works. Or sure that it does.
Perhaps a very simple piece of example code could work??
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In article <MPG### [at] NEWS POVRAY ORG>, Sander
<san### [at] stols com> wrote:
> I don't see where the pigment comes in. How can a pigment link one thing
> to another?
The color of the pigment at each point is the color of the part of the
scene seen through that point.
> > If you have trouble visualizing it, don't worry...it gives me
> > headaches,
> > and I'm still not quite sure why type 0 works. Or sure that it does.
The headaches came from a misunderstanding of a POV function...and it
works perfectly.
> Perhaps a very simple piece of example code could work??
I doubt it...the syntax is just "portal_pigment {TYPE, PARAMETERS
TRANSFORMS}", with the simplest syntax being "portal_pigment". You apply
the pigment to the object, set the ambient to 1 if you don't want the
pigment to be shaded, and transform the object and far end of the portal
to the desired positions (unless you are using a camera portal), and
that's it.
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