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From: Sean Day
Date: 15 May 2013 05:05:14
Message: <51934fca$1@news.povray.org>
Nekar Xenos wrote:
> On Mon, 13 May 2013 09:40:23 +0200, s.day <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
>
>
>> Great idea, have you tried making the blobs thinner in the x scale or
>> longer in
>> the y to make it look more like a brush stroke?
>
> Yes, I am busy with something like that. I keep tracing more blobs in
> the specified direction plus a bit of randomness, but at the moment it
> tends to look like a scene from The Thing
> =8'S
>
>> This has given me a good idea for my moss placement, the shape of each
>> clump of
>> moss was a bit square for my liking (as I just used trace over a
>> rectangular
>> area), didn't think about using an image to place the moss. I will
>> give that a
>> go.
>
> How about an L-system with random branches?
> I've never had much success with L-Systems though.
>

I think an L-system would work well for growing the moss plants 
themselves not so sure about using it for positioning them on the rocks 
though. Still could be worth investigating.


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