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#Sculpt Anim 4D

    18-Sep-88 17:26:53
Sb: #3951-#Sculpt Anim 4D
Fm: Willie Schreurs 71500,2232
To: Bob Shaw 76530,610
I called Byte by Byte on Friday to check this out, and the answer is "No", the "glass" texture is the same as the old one, although the rendering is supposed to be a little improved. We are still not able to select the refractive index. My feeling is that Sculpt may never be able to, since it seems to use surface textures rather than strictly modelling a 3-D object. The change in the proportions of transmittance and reflectance as one goes around the curve of a sphere or cylinder gives SOME illusion of refraction, but it's just not the same ….. <sigh>