On 25/09/2017 23:15, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm! Do you know about Tim Nikias' site.
> 
> Yes, certainly.  The problem is always: can I remember that it exists and what
> he has over there....
> There's always just SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much that people have written over the
> years...  

Isn't that the truth? :-)

Hence the link while I remembered.


> We need a POV-Ray Librarian / archivist to join the POV Team!
> 

Things haven't been the same since Uncle Ken went to the darkside of 
photography.



> 
> Oh.  Wait.  We have TdG.
> :D
> 

Good luck with that one. :-)


>> He wrote a suit of macros.
> 
> http://www.nolights.de/downloads.html
> 
>> One
>> of them ye describes thus:
>> A set of macros to sample the surface of an object. Useful for
>> surface-dependant effects like snow, moss, dust, hair, etc.
> 
> Ah, yes.  I recall some of threads way back with snow scenes.   Very clever
> stuff.
> 
>> I've not used that one but his Liquid-Surface-Simulation-Macros work a
>> treat.
> 
> Thanks, I'll check that out if an when I get enough uninterrupted free time.
> <howling maniacal laughter>
> 


Echoing in my head too. :-)

> Coincidentally, I've just been searching for a nice Mathematica Spikey / spiked
> sphere / heavily stellated polyhedron, and his electrostatic repulsion macro
> might just fit the bill.
> Yay serendipity!
> 
> 

Nice one!


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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