POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Granites Intermezzo : Re: Granites Intermezzo - last test image! Server Time
10 May 2024 04:29:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Granites Intermezzo - last test image!  
From: Alain Martel
Date: 14 May 2021 10:48:43
Message: <609e8dcb$1@news.povray.org>

> Op 13-5-2021 om 17:27 schreef Mr:
>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>>> All right! This is going to be the *last* test image of the pre-macro
>>> Dakota Red Granite, closing also this Intermezzo.
>>>
>>> Shown here, is the current implementation of the quartz veins through
>>> the granite, using the marble pattern. Please note that this feature
>>> will remain /experimental/ in the upcoming beta macro which I shall
>>> provide tomorrow.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Thomas
>>

>> even
>> greater !
>>
> Thanks. Validating... it depends on how deep you want to go into the 
> Uncanny Valley, or beyond into a complete and exact copy of reality. The 
> second, is imo, hardly possible (and certainly not recommended in terms 
> of workload and ultimate usage); the first would need a lot more 
> detailed work including close-up comparisons with real samples, but 
> would not be justified by the average intentions of individual users. I 
> doubt if even professionals would want it: they probably would opt for a 
> high-resolution image_map.
> 
> So, I do validate this version of the Dakota Red granite, perhaps not as 
> a true /Dakota Red/, but as a type of red granite. In a later stage we 
> shall tackle the /Canadian Pink/ and the /North American Pink/. Will 
> they be different from the present one? We shall see.
> 

The uncanny Valley is rather shallow when it comes to things like the 
pattern of rocks.


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