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Samuel Benge wrote:
OOH! That is very effective, it just needs a "pine needle" texture to add 
an extra level of detail.
How did you do it?

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Okay, Netscape pulled a fast one here... I did have text with that image!
Anyways... playing with The Gimp I found the wonderful IFS Composer. I 
decided to try any make leaves out of the resulting image. Isosurfaces 
were too slow, so I tried intersecting a sphere with a height_field 
created with the IFS image. Here is the result my efforts. The leaf 
branches have too little detail, but I think it's a fairly good start. 
It takes very little time to render when no aa and area_lights are used. 
I used both here. Questions, comments?


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Oh yeah, the reason I intersected a height_field with a sphere was to 
avoid the extra-long render times associated with many partially 
transparent objects. This scene contains 364 objects.

Samuel Benge wrote:

> Okay, Netscape pulled a fast one here... I did have text with that image!
> Anyways... playing with The Gimp I found the wonderful IFS Composer. I 
> decided to try any make leaves out of the resulting image. Isosurfaces 
> were too slow, so I tried intersecting a sphere with a height_field 
> created with the IFS image. Here is the result my efforts. The leaf 
> branches have too little detail, but I think it's a fairly good start. 
> It takes very little time to render when no aa and area_lights are used. 
> I used both here. Questions, comments?
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Huow much memory does it take after parsing?

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Peak memory was 2750445 bytes on the test I just made. What is that, 
about 2.75 megs?

John VanSickle wrote:

> Huow much memory does it take after parsing?
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>What is that,
It's not much  :-)

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Apache wrote:
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> It's not much  :-)

If it's a mesh, and can be re-used without that being too obvious,
then this is by no means too much memory for a good model.

Regards,
John

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