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David, >>Do you know any renderer/tracer that does what you want?<< ….that blurs TRACED reflections(?),… not that I know of, off hand. But then, I'm not really examing other programs that closely, so I may have overlooked it somewhere. There are, however, other programs that blur cubic or spherical reflection maps in scanline render modes, which is essentially what I'm doing with global mapping and compositing techniques in Imagine. If Impulse can jimmy the blurring algorithm into ray-tracing though, I think it could be a more robust tool, in part because it would work directly with ray-traced shadows. Nevertheless, for right now, I am fairly confident the shadows can be added back into the Scanline renders with a few compositing tricks. >>I know the difference between relection and reflectivity.<< I suspected you did. I added the explanation for the benefit of other readers because I know many people get confused by this, myself included. Sorry, I should have made that clear in my message. !!!!!!! -@-@- ( > ) """ \__/ Tim (yes, I wear glasses and a mustache, the likeness in incredible!)