"Renderdog" <slo### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote in message
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> Great looking brick wall. Sorry about the corner normal problem with
> the brick wall I posted.

No biggie.  It's always nice having a macro that a person writes himself,
and therefore understands the code perfectly, should it ever need to be
tweaked.  hehe.

> I plan to write a realistic brick wall macro for the final building in
> my Venice image (yes, *still* in progress). I may steal some of your
> ideas for that. It will be in the foreground so it'll have to be very
> detailed.

Feel free to use, borrow, modify, improve, etc.

> There are a lot of other factors/options that could be added to a
> brick wall macro, such as roughness of edges and mortar splatter,
> and aging/breaking. But the nice thing about a macro is, once
> written, it could create many different types of walls.

Right.  I'm not trying to write the brick-wall macro to end all brick wall
macros, but the idea has crossed my mind.  Right now, I just wanted
something that looks good from a small distance, and I've probably already
exceeded what I really need it for.  But then again, if I end up making
something that I want to put on a poster, I'll probably re-render at some
ultra-huge size.

> Look forward to seeing more of your work, and really appreciate you
> posting work like this (and your excellent grass macro) here.

Thanks!  I'm very grateful to everyone else who has donated their code and
macros and libraries, so whenver I come up with something that I haven't
seen before (or a new spin on something old), I try to post it here.  My
knowledge level will probably never be close to that of many others around
here - I'm barely scratching the surface of iso-surfaces (no pun intended) -
but for anyone new, or somewhere around my level, I hope to give them
something to work with.

And for anyone reading that might be afraid of trying iso-surfaces, don't
let iso-surfaces scare you.  Use Christoph's isoCSG library.  It's really
not as complex as it might seem.  Just don't forget about max_gradient.  ;-)

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Jeremy

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Indeed. The width of the mortar, the surface texture, the shape etc. is
highly dependent on the geographical area, building period, purpose of the
building, visibility of the finished wall, funds available for building, and
so on.

If it looks like the example, it'ok.

Frans

"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> schreef in bericht
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> "Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> >
> > The bricks look quite good (the textures are a bit too uniform though)
> > but the mortar could be improved.  It is a bit too broad i think and
> > real mortar is not completely flat but curved between the bricks (the
> > bricklayers have a special tool to form this).
> >
>
> Good point, but in my current implementation, the mortar is simply a
mostly
> flat wall inside the brick wall, which is why you see some mortar
splotched
> on the most uneven surfaces.  For newer, more even bricks, I'm sure I
could
> add something like that into the macro.
>
> But from my reference wall picture, it looks pretty flat.  Maybe they
didn't
> use those tools in this area in 1873.  hehe
>
> I'm not entirely happy with the f_granite iso-surface pigment, either.  I
> experimented with f_agate among others, and each gave semi-satisfactory
> results.  Maybe I'll make that a user switchable part of the macro.
>
> BTW, I used your isocsg IC_Box functions for the bricks. I can't imagine
> dealing with iso-surfaces otherwise.  Thanx!
>
> -- 
> Jeremy
>
>

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"Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote:
> I'm working on building a replica of an old schoolhouse just a couple miles
> from where I live.  No reason in particular.  I'm just impressed by all
> things sufficiently old.
>
> Anyway, as part of that, I'm making a set of iso-surface brick wall macros,
> which I'll post in p.b.s-f once I've got them working reasonably well,
> probably in a few weeks.  If anyone would like something sooner, feel free
> to email me.


Was this macro ever uploaded? Using Google I can only find this thread. Thanks.


Michael

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On 27-5-2019 10:38, posfan12 wrote:
> "Jeremy M. Praay" <jer### [at] questsoftwarecom> wrote:
>> I'm working on building a replica of an old schoolhouse just a couple miles
>> from where I live.  No reason in particular.  I'm just impressed by all
>> things sufficiently old.
>>
>> Anyway, as part of that, I'm making a set of iso-surface brick wall macros,
>> which I'll post in p.b.s-f once I've got them working reasonably well,
>> probably in a few weeks.  If anyone would like something sooner, feel free
>> to email me.
> 
> 
> Was this macro ever uploaded? Using Google I can only find this thread. Thanks.
> 
> 

Probably not; I would have it in my collection. ;-)

-- 
Thomas

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