POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Landscape of the week project : Re: Landscape of the week project Server Time
6 Aug 2024 08:13:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Landscape of the week project  
From: Corey Woodworth
Date: 15 Apr 2002 19:22:08
Message: <3cbb60a0$1@news.povray.org>
"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
news:3CB99ABC.1DC59928@gmx.de...
>
> I have started a new project on my website, the 'Landscape of the week', a
> program automatically generating landscape scenes:
>
> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/lotw/index.html
>
> The scene file for this program contains a lot of parameters and their
> values are varied with the rand() function.  By selecting appropriate
> ranges for these values the variation of the scene can be influenced.  I
> hope i have managed to get a large variety of different looking scenes and
> at the same time avoid to generate nonsense results.
>
> Some previous test renders for this project can be found on:
>
> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/lotw/old.html
>
> where you will also find the past weeks' scenes in the future.  The new
> scenes will probably be started some time on sunday so they will usually
> be available on monday (CET). I plan not to throw out bad looking results,
> but i will try to improve the script consecutively.  Until now i always
> had luck with the results...
>
> You can also rate the pictures using the forms on the pages.

Would be very cool if the program could use the data collected from the web
pages to generate scenes. In other words it picks values based on how
popular certain scenes are voted on.

Corey


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