On 14-9-2014 19:03, William F Pokorny wrote:

> I didn't spend too much time on the textures & agree most pumpkins are
> uglier & more varied - especially across varieties and sizes.
>
> The texture for the surface of the pumpkin is a slightly variable color
> about a core color plus normal bumps scaled very small to add some
> graininess.

Imo, that is spot on.

>
> The rest of the effect comes from the pumpkin shape being formed with
> the aid of a spherical displacement map. The spherical map was created
> in Pov-Ray ahead of time using the spherical camera and it gets used for
> the rind and meat sub-functions of the total shape's function.

[Did I note /spherical camera/ on my todo list? Hmmm... yes I did. three 
times actually.]  :-)

Thomas

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