POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Blob Potential Pattern : Re: Blob Potential Pattern Server Time
10 May 2024 05:14:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blob Potential Pattern  
From: William F Pokorny
Date: 15 Sep 2016 07:00:46
Message: <57da7f5e$1@news.povray.org>
On 09/14/2016 08:00 AM, William F Pokorny wrote:
> On 09/12/2016 04:14 PM, clipka wrote:
>> Am 11.09.2016 um 20:54 schrieb clipka:
>>> Work in progress.
>>
>> Source code available now here:
>>
>> https://github.com/c-lipka/povray/tree/feature/potential_pattern
>>
>> Integration into POV-Ray proper to follow later.
>>
>
> Been playing a bit more. Potential {Blob} with densities and normals
> works. An Isosurface as the pattern for a pigment_map.
>
> The isosurface flavor is for me working pretty much as a path to the
> isosurface function. Contained_by_box not having any effect that I can
> see - meaning the container doesn't cut off the result from the function.
>
> Perhaps how I've coded, but also seeing no effect from the new polarity
> option of isosurface or the threshold on/off option of the potential
> pattern. Not looked at the code as yet.
>
> With media I tried a multi component blob as both the container and what
> was defining the density - really fast with emitting media. Should make
> for a good "glows" feature among other uses.
>
> Bill P.

Please see comment to pull request #88. I think I figured out why 
threshold isn't working. More info there.

Bill P.


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