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30 Jul 2024 18:22:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Crevice grime  
From: Robert McGregor
Date: 14 Mar 2011 18:35:01
Message: <web.4d7e97fc50dd01dd94d713cc0@news.povray.org>
"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Had a bit of an error in how I was handling my harmonic mean function that I
> fixed.
>
> Here is a run on a real mesh, and it looks like there may some potential.
>
> For scale, the elephant mesh is approximately 240x220x110.  I have run a 500x500
> sampling grid over a ~350x350 square.  Note:I am using a square that uses the
> diagonal corner length of the mesh bounding box, so it tends to end up larger
> than it needs to be, but this just easily ensures that I am sampling the whole
> object without having to sample the whole image/scene.
>
> The other settings I used were:
> normal angle = 75deg;
> normal samples = 24;
> standardized depth for harmonic mean = 10
>
> -tgq

This looks very promising, Trevor.

How's it look with the elephant turned y*45, and with some sort of shading?
(i.e., other than the white and grime). Just wondering if the occlusion still
works at some arbitrary angle to the camera...

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