POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Cloth sim include : Re: Cloth sim include Server Time
4 Aug 2024 22:14:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cloth sim include  
From: Micheal (Mike) Williams
Date: 26 Jan 2003 11:36:49
Message: <3e340ea1@news.povray.org>
Thanks

I will look into those links. I guess I was hoping for a simple way to lay a
table cloth over a table realistically.


"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
news:cja### [at] netplexaussieorg...
> In article <3e32e1db@news.povray.org>,
>  "Mike Williams" <mic### [at] quixnetnet> wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a cloth simulator as an include. I know some patches
are
> > available but i would like to stay in the official Povray.
> >
> > Is there one or do i start writting my own?
>
> There are several web pages on the subject, but I think you severely
> underestimate the amount of processing required. This kind of simulation
> will take a *long* time to run if written in POV-Script. No serious
> system has been written in POV-Script, partly because interpreting the
> script is just too slow and partly because it is too complex to
> implement easily in the POV language. And this is something where a
> graphical editor really helps...it will take a lot of tweaking and fine
> tuning.
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_main.htm
>
> A Google search will turn up others.
>
> --
> Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
> POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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