POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Guess the algorithm : Re: Guess the algorithm Server Time
14 Nov 2024 20:29:26 EST (-0500)
  Re: Guess the algorithm  
From: Orchid XP v7
Date: 19 Nov 2007 13:16:58
Message: <4741d31a$1@news.povray.org>
Alain wrote:

> Most large chambers are the intersection of several conduits. When over 
> 5 twisting tubes intersect, you loose the apearance of tubes. On 
> ocasions, I saw some bits of "floating" objects in those large chambers.
> Some passages are actualy made of 2 or more almost parallel tubes, and 
> some of those may be flattened.

Mmm, seems plausible. You'd have to have some fairly high-order 
smoothing to blur out the details though. Also, are the tunnels entirely 
random? Do they all run more or less parallel with perturbed paths? Are 
the statistics random or carefully tuned?

Time to experiement, I think... ;-)


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