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15 May 2024 09:34:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cave concept  
From: Paolo Gibellini
Date: 29 Feb 2016 06:19:04
Message: <56d42928$1@news.povray.org>
Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote on 29/02/2016 11.44:
> Hi:
>
>      Here is a new scene on the making... a cave with stalactites and
> stalagmites. The rough shape is a mesh created with Wings3d, then I
> added a heighfield for the ground, and thrown some isosurface rocks
> using trace(). Finally, also using trace(), I added some stalactites and
> stalactites, which are cone-shaped isosurfaces. The water is currently a
> simple plane, but should evolve into a heighfield. And yes, there will
> be crystals there at some point, but for the moment I'm just looking for
> comments/suggestions about the cave itself.
>
> --
> jaime
>
>

The scene is beautiful as usual, but in my opinion the textures are a 
bit too dark (usually the limestone is more pale) and perhaps need to be 
a bit reflective near stalactites and stalagmites in order to give a 
sense of humidity.
;-)
Paolo


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