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stbenge <stb### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
> triple_r wrote:
> > Some people in the office are doing scientific ray-tracing, and I think they
> > happened upon POV-Ray in the process. So everyone has Gilles Tran's bottle
> > scene on their desktop. Got me in the mood, so now I'm digging up some old
> > projects. This one's just a shameless render-dump. On top of that, it's not
> > even original. In fact, far from it:
> >
> > http://www.pbrt.org/gallery/01F12.jpg
> >
> > Not that I was trying to replicate it, but was never able to get the combination
> > of parameters just right, so here's pretty much where it ended. Rendering time
> > wasn't more than a few hours, as I recall. Should probably ditch the ior.
> >
> > - Ricky
>
> No, no, don't ditch the ior! This is a beautiful image, regardless of
> the circumstances surrounding it. That material is almost opalescent...
>
>
> Sam
Not the SSS, but the ior. Without it you get something like this:
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3Cweb.4729e37fb6546248731f01d10%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3Cweb.472
9e37fb6546248731f01d10%40news.povray.org%3E
Where the edges may show straight through. With it, you might get total
internal reflection and some odd artifacts that go with it. No-win.
- Ricky
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