POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Blob based water system? : Re: Blob based water system? Server Time
7 Aug 2024 03:25:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blob based water system?  
From: Trevor Quayle
Date: 6 Dec 2001 08:50:02
Message: <3c0f778a$1@news.povray.org>

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>
> ["Captain Tylor" <fis### [at] hrupennedu>]
> | It seems to work for me.  I haven't tried the actual program yet though.
>
> I'm running it right now. It's pretty interesting, but for some reason
> that I can't completely understand, it does not use blobs, only spheres,
> and it's not very well documented. I'm running a modified version of
> the scenes that came with it. I'll post a link to the finished animation
> when it's done. :)
>
> --
> It's a dark day for mad science.

The only problem I'd see with blobs is conservation of volume, with 'solid'
spheres, it is fairly easy to maintain because each sphere has a definite
surface and volume, with blobs this is not the case. I suppose an
apporximation may give acceptable results.  Just food for thought.

-tgq


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