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10 Aug 2024 11:22:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Declaring blob components ?  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 29 Feb 2000 00:50:47
Message: <38bb5e37@news.povray.org>
David Wilkinson wrote in message ...
>Blobs can be as complicated as you can devise them.  You only have to see
H.E.Day's images
>to see the power of blobs.  Run the code I gave in my answer to Moon74 to
see just one
>blob.
>
>In one blob you can keep on adding spheres and cylinders with positive and
negative
>strengths to add or subtract from the final shape.  These spheres and
cylinders can also
>be distorted by uneven scaling. The individual components in a blob can be
given different
>textures and this can all add up to a fiendishly complicated object.


One limit:  A single blob cannot have more than one million components.

Mark


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