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There should be an additional mention of not using the averaged normals 
approach, but using a single normal plus focal blur and antialiasing.


Clipka talks about this approach here:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5a8191e7%241%40news.povray.org%3E/


Quote:
 > You need:
 >
 > (1) A way to randomize the reflection. A `normal` statement with a very
 > small scale does nicely.
 >
 > (2) A way to force POV-Ray to shoot a high number of rays per pixel
 > where the randomized reflection is. A small bit of focal blur (with high
 > quality settings) does nicely.
 >
 > Together this gives you nice blurred reflections at a (hopefully)
 > reasonable speed.




The code I used is this:


	texture
	{
		pigment { InPigment }
		finish { InFinish }
		normal { InNormal }
		normal {bumps BlurAmount scale 0.01}
	}

along with some focal blur and antialiasing.


I'm not sure how the section should be worded however.



Mike

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