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2 Aug 2024 20:16:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Improving etched pyramids  
From: Kenneth
Date: 13 Feb 2013 16:00:01
Message: <web.511bfdd07ee00279c2d977c20@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

>
>    That looks almost perfect to me, at least for that particular SEM
> picture posted by kmcpeak. And "cheating" seems more or less obligatory
> here, as SEM photography doesn't involves lighting at all...

Thanks. Now that I look at my image again, it doesn't seem so ambiguous after
all. But the longer I stare at it, the 'bumps' want to come back. :-(  With a
planar surface (and not much perspective, or none at all), there seem to be no
real 'depth cues'--other than the faux shadowing.


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