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From: Chris Colefax
Subject: Clouds
Date: 3 Apr 2002 21:29:05
Message: <3cabba71@news.povray.org>
No media, no layered planes, 3.1/3.5 compatible, fully animateable,
automatic sun-shading, parameters for lighting, softness, smoothness,
height, flatness, turbulence - and very quick to render!


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From: Christopher James Huff
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 3 Apr 2002 21:44:36
Message: <chrishuff-306153.21454703042002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3cabba71@news.povray.org>,
 "Chris Colefax" <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> No media, no layered planes, 3.1/3.5 compatible, fully animateable,
> automatic sun-shading, parameters for lighting, softness, smoothness,
> height, flatness, turbulence - and very quick to render!

The Holy Grail of clouds...how? What are the drawbacks? What types of 
clouds can it do?
I think some of the media clouds look more realistic, but only at 
settings that cause very slow rendering...and I've noticed clouds in 
reality don't look very realistic, either. ;-)
The fog definitely looks wrong, is it hiding some distance artifacts?

Not media...but they look very 3D, they appear to cover up clouds behind 
them. Not isosurfaces, they don't fit the part about being 3.1 
compatible or being fast. Sprites? In other words, a bunch of partly 
transparent objects scattered around the sky? That would get pretty 
slow, probably almost at the level of layered planes. You have me 
stumped.

-- 
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
TAG web site: http://tag.povray.org/


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From: Robert Chaffe
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 3 Apr 2002 21:47:29
Message: <3cabbec1@news.povray.org>
"Chris Colefax" <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3cabba71@news.povray.org...
> No media, no layered planes, 3.1/3.5 compatible, fully animateable,
> automatic sun-shading, parameters for lighting, softness, smoothness,
> height, flatness, turbulence - and very quick to render!

Nice.  Pseudo-randomly generated meshes, perhaps?  When will your macro be available?

Robert Chaffe
http://www.donovansweb.com/~chaffe/


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From: David Heys
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 3 Apr 2002 23:09:24
Message: <3cabd1f4$1@news.povray.org>
You will, of course, have to share this wonderful discovery. :{)

How will it work with things like, for instance, a ruddy sunset peeking
through the clouds?

David

"Chris Colefax" <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
news:3cabba71@news.povray.org...
> No media, no layered planes, 3.1/3.5 compatible, fully animateable,
> automatic sun-shading, parameters for lighting, softness, smoothness,
> height, flatness, turbulence - and very quick to render!
>
>
>


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From: Dearmad
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 4 Apr 2002 00:04:44
Message: <3CABDFE6.2EFA69D4@applesnake.net>
good lord.

share code/ technique / utility you made... or face death.

-peter
-- 
Story board slave for:
"Ballet pour ma fille."
http://www.applesnake.net


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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 4 Apr 2002 01:08:40
Message: <3cabede8@news.povray.org>
Argh! Clouds! Scary clouds! Mean evil scary clouds with nasty cloud
makeup and-and-and flappy feet and everythi... Oh! ... wait a minute... I'm
not scared of -clouds-, it's -clowns- I'm scared of...

    Never mind.


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From: Skip Talbot
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 4 Apr 2002 01:15:24
Message: <3cabef7c$1@news.povray.org>
Fantastic!  Another soon to be famous Colefax include.  These clouds will
save thousands of hours in rendering time and hundreds of lives...
--



Skip


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From: Tom Bates
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 4 Apr 2002 02:05:22
Message: <3cabfb32$1@news.povray.org>
"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message news:3cabede8@news.povray.org...
>
>     Argh! Clouds! Scary clouds! Mean evil scary clouds with nasty cloud
> makeup and-and-and flappy feet and everythi... Oh! ... wait a minute... I'm
> not scared of -clouds-, it's -clowns- I'm scared of...
>
>     Never mind.
>
>

Send In The Clouds.


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From: Timothy R  Cook
Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 4 Apr 2002 03:04:17
Message: <3CAC0905.708DF784@scifi-fantasy.com>
Chris Colefax wrote:
> No media, no layered planes, 3.1/3.5 compatible, fully animateable,
> automatic sun-shading, parameters for lighting, softness, smoothness,
> height, flatness, turbulence - and very quick to render!

Stop posting photographs.

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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Subject: Re: Clouds
Date: 4 Apr 2002 03:09:42
Message: <ne2oaugs8ftg6r0tflhokl8a8htkq0p0j2@4ax.com>
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:29:12 +1000, "Chris Colefax"
<chr### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> No media, no layered planes, 3.1/3.5 compatible, fully animateable,
> automatic sun-shading

focal blur compatible ?

> parameters for lighting, softness, smoothness,
> height, flatness, turbulence - and very quick to render!

smart sky sphere pigment ?

ABX


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