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"melo" <mel### [at] cox net> wrote in message
news:web.47b537eb959d401792254edf0@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> I keep hearing about a Blobman, a few web links took me to a few msgs
> saying the
> web site was offline.
>
> Is there some place else where it can be found/downloaded?
>
> Is it a CSG union of BLOB objects? or polygonal mesh?
>
> I need some POV-RAY sources for my moving skeletal as his/her skin.
>
> Is there some way to assign different age/gender/anthropology attributes
> to
> BlobMan? Can it be a boy/girl/man/woman/white/black/Asian/etc?
>
> Thanks,
> Meltem
>
The only place I know of where you can still get a copy of Blobman is
Blobman 4.2 which is on the povray.binaries.utilities newsgroup from 2002.
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.utilities/thread/%3C3d35eec1%40news.povray.org%3E/
Each movable body part in Blobman is made up of a set of blobs. There was a
male and a female body, but I don't recollect whether there was any control
over the attributes. I would imagine that the skin colour could readily be
changed.
The first version of POV-Person was just a head of my own making stuck onto
the Blobman 4.2 bodies, so you can see what the alternative Blobman body
shapes are in the sample rendering at
http://www.telinco.co.uk/c_bartlett/povperson/povperson.jpg. The upside down
man and the lady lying down in the background in that scene still have the
original 2 Blobman heads, (which I thought looked terrible).
When I started developing POV-Person back in 2004 I tried contacting the
author (Peter Houston), but none of the mailboxes led anywhere. Because I
couldn't contact the author and the terms of use of Blobman were not clearly
defined I set about creating new body parts for subsequent releases of
POV-Person. Those are also mostly blobs in the current version of
POV-Person, except for the head (face, hair, eyes, teeth, ears etc) and the
finger and toe nails.
Regards,
Chris B.
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