Looked impressive to me, can't recall if I've seen this exact sort of
thing before or not. I would think I'd have something about it here if I
had. Terragen was mentioned by GrimDude for some reason, but I haven't
used a lot of such utilities enough to know about them.


Andrew Woodfin wrote:
> 
> I worked on a little command line utility a few years ago to produce POV
> scene files made up of a variety of objects to represent the pixels of a
> TGA format input. I learned after the fact about tgadot, but mine is
> different in that it doesn't represent every image pixel, which using
> tgadot can be 10's of 1000's of objects!. It also allows objects other
> than spheres to be used, and can scale the object sizes from color and
> contrast information in the original input image. I posted some stuff
> created from it last year and received a little input but then I got
> swamped with work and had to put it on the shelf. Well, I'm still
> swamped with work but I'm back to fiddling with it again. I'm posting a
> few scenes made by it in povray.binaries.images, so if your interested
> check them out. I've added some animation capability so the resulting
> image can disintegrate, but cmpeg seems to choke on all the colors(?)
> and makes quite an ugly mpeg from it. Post here if you have any interest
> in such a thing, cause I now think I feel comfortable sending the
> executable out without fear of it wreaking havoc.
> 
> Andy
> 
> --
> 
> --------------------
> "There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches.
> How do they smoke??"
>   -The Riddler
> 
> Andrew Woodfin
> UNC Charlotte Center for Precision Metrology
> adw### [at] unccedu
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