POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Small is NOT BEAUTIFUL : Re: Small is NOT BEAUTIFUL Server Time
4 Aug 2024 20:17:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Small is NOT BEAUTIFUL  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 12 Mar 2003 13:02:43
Message: <3e6f7643$1@news.povray.org>
In article <web.3e6f6fbcf83a23f92a3ff2e70@news.povray.org> , "Retsam" 
<nomail@nomail> wrote:

> I ran into a similar problem with some blobs I made.  I was trying to make a
> generic flower (daisy), which meant squishing sphere components to make the
> petals.  I ended up having to make the flower about 100 units across in
> order to eliminate MOST (unfortunately not all) of the visual artifacts.  I
> also ended up making the petals thicker, because thinner petals had huge
> artifacts even at very large scales.  At a scale of even 5 units across,
> large portions of the tips of the petals got cut off, etc.
>
> For example, instead of scaling a sphere component by <32, 1.5, 10> to make
> a thin petal, I had to scale by <32, 4, 12> to get a useable petal.

This sounds much more like you didn't specify "sturm"...

    Thorsten

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