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4 Nov 2024 12:58:43 EST (-0500)
  Re: Cave Of The Ancients  
From: Kzerphii Toomk
Date: 17 Oct 2008 01:15:47
Message: <48f81f83$1@news.povray.org>
You're on a very good way...

K. (France)


web.48f20165afdf087878dcad930@news.povray.org...
> This scene took quite a long time to assemble and tweak--not only because 
> of the
> complexity and detail, but because it raised a host of issues and 
> interesting
> problems (especially in shapes.inc) that needed to be understood and dealt 
> with.
> Whenever I ran into some unexpected POV behavior (or my own POV 
> ignorance!), I
> took time to pursue the cause with lots of experimentation. As always, a 
> great
> learning experience.
>
> The cave is a HFCylinder macro, very hi-resolution, with inside_vector 
> added
> (inside shapes.inc) for CSG.
>
> No radiosity for this scene (yet); rad and photons together have some 
> issues
> that I haven't solved.
>
> Comments, criticisms, suggestions all welcome.
>
> For those intrepid souls who want to see some of the changes I made to
> shapes.inc., take a look here:
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.advanced-users/thread/%3Cweb.48e0b5a74b96f64378dcad930%40news.povray.org%3E/
>
> Ken W.
>


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