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From: Mahalis
Subject: Pulse lasers?
Date: 7 Aug 2001 15:27:37
Message: <3b704129@news.povray.org>
Does anyone know how to do laser beams with a glow around them?


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From: Jamie Davison
Subject: Re: Pulse lasers?
Date: 7 Aug 2001 15:50:46
Message: <MPG.15da5787c63e2049899b6@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 15:29:18 -0400, Mahalis wrote...
> Does anyone know how to do laser beams with a glow around them?

Emitting media?  MegaPOV Glows?

Those are the two options which spring to mind immediately.

Bye for now,
     Jamie.


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From: Scott Hill
Subject: Re: Pulse lasers?
Date: 7 Aug 2001 16:41:24
Message: <3b705274$1@news.povray.org>
"Mahalis" <don### [at] fakeycom> wrote in message
news:3b704129@news.povray.org...
> Does anyone know how to do laser beams with a glow around them?
>

    MegaPOV (see www.povray.org, in the links section, somewhere under
'patches' or something like that), photons (see the MegaPOV docs), and media
(see either official POV or MegaPOV docs)...

--
Scott Hill.
Software Engineer.
E-Mail        : sco### [at] innocentcom
Pandora's Box : http://www.pandora-software.com

*Everything in this message/post is purely IMHO and no-one-else's*


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From: Tom A 
Subject: Re: Pulse lasers?
Date: 8 Aug 2001 13:43:40
Message: <3B717A4C.4DCF7E99@my-deja.com>
Mahalis wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know how to do laser beams with a glow around them?

Put a cylinder around the laser with the same start and end points, but
a radius about 2 or 3 times the laser beam's cylinder, with the same
color as the beam, but add   "transmit .9"

eg.

// beam
cylinder{ <0,5,0> <0,5,100> .1 pigment{ Red } }

// glow
cylinder{ <0,5,0><0,5,100> .3 pigment{ Red transmit .9 }} 


-- 
Tom A.
See everything; over look a great deal; correct a little.  -Blessed Pope
John XXIII


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