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Sininenplaneetta
http://koti.mbnet.fi/anttij77/
Plugins/Coffee.html
Plug-in by Antti Järvelä
Coffee!
(Intel, Mac OS9, Mac OSX)
Full
Version
What it is
: Coffee! is a shader
that alters the transparency and
coloring of a transparent object
based on thickness
. This is a
quick and effective way of fak-
ing the look of things like glass,
coffee, tea, or anything trans-
parent that is less opaque or a different
color around its edges.
What makes this cool
: Used in con-
junction with LightWave's own
transparency and color filtering, you can
quickly get the look of glass and other liq-
uids. (Technically, glass
is
a liquid that at
Figure A-19 (Image by Antti Järvelä — used with permission)
“normal” temperatures just moves
very
slowly
.)
Notes
: Coffee! is
not
the same as
ASA_LASI. Coffee does
not
figure the com-
plex mathematics of light absorption — and
as such, you may find you understand it a
lot more quickly.
Figure A-20
