Mark Birch wrote:
> Look excellent!
> 
> How well does it show up against a background?

Will be part of a subsequent "state".  Right now most of the web is
straight cylinders except for the perimeter strands which are cylinders 
laid along splines.  Well I hoped to base all the strands on splines 
because in the real world, where backgrounds exist, webs are often 
drooping from dew or whatever.  And I do have a version where all the 
strands of webbing *are* based on splines.  But that version stops 
inexplicably and capriciously.  In fact I've spent over a week trying to 
isolate the bug but cannot.  So I went the simpler, less general, route 
in order to move the project along.  But yes I do want to play with 
backgrounds, lighting, texturing a bit, recreate those early morning sun 
on spiderweb dew type shots that photographers so love, and see if that 
goes anywhere.  There are a few different directions I want to try. 
Also different types of spiders produce slightly different web patterns 
which might be interesting coding problems.  Much of the difference 
seems to involve how each handle the perimeter.  The problem I was 
trying to solve in these examples is the case where the spiral starts 
out pretty round, reflecting the outside perimeter shape only slightly, 
but then increasingly comes to conform to the outside shape of the 
perimeter, though never completely.


http://www.conservation.unibas.ch/team/zschokke/spidergallery.html


> 
> Also, see if you can get it to write "Good Pig" in there...
> 
> 
Hee hee.  E B White got there ahead of me!  Well for me it will just be 
hard enough to introduce vagaries into the pattern which then becomes 
smoothed out again as the spiral progresses.  But you never know!

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