"Mike Sobers" <sob### [at] mindspringcom> wrote:
>
> However, I agree that the shadow looks too uniform and should be darker
> under the planets.  I have radiosity brightness level set to 1.  Do you
> think that's too high?  The entire image looked a little washed-out
> originally, so I post-processed it (gasp!) to increase the contrast.
> Anyone have suggestions on how to fix this in POVRay?

Lowering the error_bound should take care of the bland-looking shadows.
Values below 0.5 are generally needed to avoid that ray-traced look.  I
seldom go much lower than that, but i've seen code (written by POVers with
more patience than i) with error_bound 0.1 or even less.  Unfortunately, a
low error_bound also tends to introduce artifacts.  Decreasing pretrace_end
and increasing count can help smooth them out.

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