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28 Jun 2024 05:52:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: greeble envy  
From: Bryan Valencia
Date: 17 Oct 2006 14:18:56
Message: <45351e90$1@news.povray.org>
wow - make that a LOT bigger and you have the "ring-around-the-moon"
moonbase from Starship Troopers.




"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
news:45350949@news.povray.org...
> You know how sometimes the same word keeps popping up in your life and you
> start to get kind of superstitious that there's some strange force behind
> it? Well over the last 3 days I have: looked up the wikipedia definition
of
> greebles, seen a post here about Zeger's Greebles, and saw a post on
> off-topic also about greebles! In that order, and in apparently completely
> unconnected events! I swear nobody needs this many greebles in their life.
>
> Anyway, seeing all these lovely greebles has given me greeble envy, so I
> decided to try to do some greebles that render fast enough that I might be
> able to use them in an animation, if the next IRTC anim topic ever gets
> announced...
>
> So here is the results of my macro, it draws a greebled polygon (or in
this
> case several polygons arranged in a square-torus), by subdividing the
> 4-pointed polygon into a grid, then using a bunch of funky rules to deform
> that grid.
>
> Total parse & render time: 42 seconds.
> -- 
> Tek
> http://evilsuperbrain.com
>
>
>


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