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3 Sep 2024 11:21:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random graphics paper  
From: Darren New
Date: 7 Feb 2011 13:05:03
Message: <4d50344f$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/siggraph2010_vlachos_waterflow.pdf 
> 
> 
> Significantly less impressive than you'd think. Check out page #3, for 
> example. It appears to be merely a trivial repeating texture.

It *is* a trivial repeating texture, when static. See page 9.

> There's no 
> hint of all the complexity that the paper claims goes into generating 
> this...

Probably because it's not animated, and thus a dynamic flow of water isn't 
going to be obvious in a printed paper.

Thanks for the paper, tho. That's interesting.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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     "That was fatal?"
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