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  Re: concentric blobs clouds  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 27 Apr 2016 04:05:24
Message: <572072c4$1@news.povray.org>
On 27-4-2016 9:38, Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> El 27/04/16 a las 08:56, Thomas de Groot escribió:
>> Very nice indeed Jaime. How does this method relate to the df3 one
>> used by Gilles Tran? I am familiar with that;
>
>    Well, in fact I started first trying df3 clouds: I did my own
> "makecloud" using ARRAYS_WriteDF3() to write the cloud files, sampling
> the same blobs I'm using now. It worked fine, but it was slow to
> generate clouds with decent resolution, and the look was too fluffy.
> Also, I found no way to make the clouds less turbulent at bottom.

Ah yes, the cloud bottom was a problem indeed.

>
>> I also used blobs for making smoke (Chris Huff or Michael Carneholm
>> macros) but they are pretty slow.
>
>    Well, I'm using another blob as container, and perhaps that's making
> them faster, because I find them not much slower than the df3 ones.
>

That's interesting. Thanks!


-- 
Thomas


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