Tim Nikias wrote:
>>I saw this picture:
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>
http://www.worldpressphoto.nl/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=264&type=byname&Itemid=119&bandwidth=high
> 
>>and was wondering how one might render broken glass as shown here.
> 
> 
> Quite complicated stuff. You might want to try and create a mesh of some
> sort, maybe by deriving this shattered structure from a function using a
> solid-edged crackle pattern (or probably, a mix of several differently
> scaled crackles). Cut out the holes with an irregular shape. Either texture
> the glass properly or put high-density media inside (which would take
> forever though).
> 
> In general, things like "breaking glass" are difficult to pull off and there
> are universities doing research on this on how to efficiently and properly
> get virtual glass for various stuff like CG, simulations, etc. Not only are
> you asking a "simple" breaking glass, you want to take on the entire
> palette: fractures, cracks, holes... ;-)
> 
Hehe. I wasn't worried about the holes. Its the fractures that decrease
in amount as a function of the distance from a given point that seems to
be most challenging. I was thinking of some kind of white web of solid
fractures in a union with a glass plate. But I haven't a clue how to do
that.


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