POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : 3d-wallpaper-like renderings : Re: 3d-wallpaper-like renderings Server Time
5 Sep 2024 01:54:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 3d-wallpaper-like renderings  
From: phwitti
Date: 1 Jun 2013 06:25:00
Message: <web.51a9cb5e7f39e685bf6e12d0@news.povray.org>
Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> There may be a problem if your media container is much to large or there
> is no container at all.
>
> Try enclosing your cube inside a box about 2 to 5 times larger. It need
> to be as small as possible while containing all the visible media.
> Make is "hollow" with "pigment{rgbt 1}".
>
> The goal is to prevent any ray to extend to infinity while traveling in
> the media: Reatching the background. When this appen, there is no way to
> acurately evaluate the effect of the media.

Ahh, this did the trick. I thought, reasonably enclosing the media element was
only for minimizing the render-time. As I were in no hurry, I just didn't use a
media container at all -- nice to know, that there are other purposes of that
one.

You were a great help, thank you very much.


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