POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.competition : Why I won't enter PoVComp again. : Re: Why I won't enter PoVComp again. Server Time
18 May 2024 17:06:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why I won't enter PoVComp again.  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Feb 2005 06:02:03
Message: <4222fa2a@news.povray.org>
scott <sco### [at] spamcom> wrote:
> POV is not suitable for creating most models, the main problem I find with
> using CSG is that it is very hard to produce rounded edges on anything but
> very simple shapes.  Rounded edges go a long way to make the difference
> between photorealistic and "computer generated" IMHO.

  Just because St. says that povcomp was a "CSG-only" competition doesn't
make it so.

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#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
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