They look like clumps of cells or organic matter - how would these aunty
blobs works for molecular models?

Rick

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Josh English wrote:

> These are great!

Thank you !


> In that second picture I find it hard to beleive that there
> are only 8 components to the blob...

Maybe I was a little bit unclear about that:

It really is 8 blobs in that image, but each of the 8 blobs
consists of one component with positive strength and
several other components with negative strength.


> sure it can be used for a bucky ball, but
> also a really really big bug eye...

Ahh ... good idea !


> Please share the code on this one, I'd love to see it.

I have posted it to:
news://news.povray.org/povray.text.scene-files

Here it is:
news://news.povray.org/39A41970.112A945C%40online.no


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Paul Jones wrote:

> now that I think about it, if you could animate this, like a dividing
> cells or something..... maybe start with one, then it grows and grows
> into a horrific monster.....

Hmmm ... interesting idea ... I'll have to muse over this a little bit.

Maybe something like this could be done with a modified version
of my macro ...

... but I'm not quite sure how a cell looks like when it is about to
divide into two cells.

Is it like a "normal" blob with two sphere components ?

Do you (or anyone else in here) know ?

(But I don't think I would have the patience to model the
complete evolution of a monster with POV-script !  ;)

Thank you for commenting.


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"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
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> Is it like a "normal" blob with two sphere components ?
> Do you (or anyone else in here) know ?
> Thank you for commenting.
>
>
> Tor Olav
> --
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>
>

     Tor,  you are very, very, close!

                 ~Steve~

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"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:

> They look like clumps of cells or organic matter

I thought I would try to give them an organic texture, but I don't
know how to do that, so I chose a stone texture instead.


> - how would these aunty blobs works for molecular models?

Aunty ?

I'm not sure what kind of molecular models you would like.

Do you have any other images or drawings of such models ?


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25ct wrote:

> "Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
> news:39A4252F.282E76BC@online.no...
>
> > Is it like a "normal" blob with two sphere components ?
> > Do you (or anyone else in here) know ?
> > Thank you for commenting.
>
>      Tor,  you are very, very, close!

Do you mean that I'm very close to a dividing cell ?

If so: Is it the image I posted, or is it my suggestion
to use a "normal" two-component blob that is close ?

Thanks for commenting


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"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
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> Because my employer has sent me travelling a lot lately,
> I haven't had much time for rendering the past weeks. =(

Don't understand this.

When You travel by car, You can let Your notebook
render all the time, and at each stop, You look at
the pictures and make the next steps.


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> "Tor Olav Kristensen" <tto### [at] onlineno> wrote in message
> news:39A31644.AB3DE5EF@online.no...
> > Because my employer has sent me travelling a lot lately,
> > I haven't had much time for rendering the past weeks. =(
>
> Don't understand this.
>
> When You travel by car, You can let Your notebook
> render all the time, and at each stop, You look at
> the pictures and make the next steps.

Hehe ...

But how did you know that I were travelling by car and
that I'm carrying a notebook with me ???

The first days I got so bored when I was sitting on the
ferry (or waiting for it) that I started up POV-Ray and
did some renderings.

But the laptop's LCD is quite bad for viewing the
results, so I became quite  frustrated when I couldn't
see clearly the details I wanted to examine in the image.

Therefore I don't render in the car anymore. But I
often think about ideas I have (like these antiblobs)
when I'm travelling.

I have also found that I don't like to render when I'm
feeling alone (like in the car which also is an "off-line
place").

Being online and reading these POV-news groups
inspires me a lot when I'm POV-ing.


Tor Olav
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:20:39 +0200, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>
>The first days I got so bored when I was sitting on the
>ferry (or waiting for it) that I started up POV-Ray and
>did some renderings.
>
>But the laptop's LCD is quite bad for viewing the
>results, so I became quite  frustrated when I couldn't
>see clearly the details I wanted to examine in the image.
>
>Therefore I don't render in the car anymore. But I
>often think about ideas I have (like these antiblobs)
>when I'm travelling.
>
>I have also found that I don't like to render when I'm
>feeling alone (like in the car which also is an "off-line
>place").
>
>Being online and reading these POV-news groups
>inspires me a lot when I'm POV-ing.

Wow that's multi-tasking.  

The solution's simple, d/l the newsgroups so that you can read
them off line, and get petrol generator so that you can plug
a standard monitor in and use it with you'r notebook, presumably
you have something that allows you to plug the notebook into 
the car's cigarette lighter (to allow you to do renders that take
more than on hour). 

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I have no idea why, but my first impression upon seeing the first image
was "Rocky Mountain Oysters". Go figure. The second image looks a lot
like some of those molecule models you see in chem labs in school.

Ken Matassa

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