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24 Apr 2024 18:31:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fake shadows in 32-bit images?  
From: Kenneth
Date: 1 Sep 2021 11:10:00
Message: <web.612f96f67599ad524cef624e6e066e29@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>
> What you can do is take the object and make it into an isosurface, then use that
> function like: function {Object (x, y, 0)} which will scale the object
> infinitely in the z direction.
> But wait - there's more!
> Now use that function in a pigment pattern, and you get a silhouette (shadow) of
> the object.
>

Very cool stuff! I'm going to try out those ideas.

The 'object pattern' is a feature that I've almost never played with, if I
recall-- mainly because the docs give a very cursory explanation of what it
is/does, and also because I didn't truly grasp its usefulness from POV-ray's
example scene file. But it's a powerful feature, as I'm finding out. I've
actually been up all night (...yawn...) putting it to a *really* interesting
use, heh heh. That's off-topic here, but I plan to post about my idea very soon.


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