POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : creepy figures : Re: creepy figures Server Time
17 May 2024 20:06:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: creepy figures  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 12 Feb 2018 03:14:01
Message: <5a814cc9$1@news.povray.org>
On 11-2-2018 17:46, Norbert Kern wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> 
>> This is... creepy! Very well done indeed. I need to ponder the method:
>> you choose a random point /on/ the mesh surface, then, from that random
>> point, you traced /inside/ the mesh to the opposite side I suppose, but
>> in what direction? randomly? along the surface normal at that point? I
>> am a bit lost I confess.
>>
>> --
>> Thomas
> 
> I used the surface normal.
> A test file was uploaded to pbs-f.
> 
> But - it's not very fast...
> 
> I included a method for using the method for spikes a la Gormley.
> 
> 
> Norbert
> 
> 

Thank you! I shall have something to do the coming days! ;-)

-- 
Thomas


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