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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 6 Dec 2014 10:49:41
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Following my question in p.advanced-users about toroidal patterns, this 
is a first test for a kind of Milkyway. One shows it from the centre, 
this other image is an overview of the torus used.

Thomas


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 11 Dec 2014 06:58:05
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A very preliminary wip.

A used a couple of tricks to make believe. Background stars using Chris 
Colefax's galaxy macros; Milky Way dust lanes by an emission and an 
absorption media inside a torus; Milky Way stars by a gauss distribution 
of spheres in an elongated box.

Thomas


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 11 Dec 2014 10:26:54
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The results are still irregular but this is another interesting view by 
rotating the torus to another position. 20000 Milky Way stars by the way 
like in previous image. Image renders in about 2 minutes.

Thomas


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 16 Dec 2014 08:17:33
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A fundamental step forward although hardly distinguishable from previous.

Background stars again using the galaxy macros by Chris Colefax;

Dust lanes by several emission and absorption media, concentrated into 
torus-like density patterns. The difficulty resides mainly in applying 
interesting turbulence patterns;

40K stars in the Milky Way plane represented by (write/read) randomly 
rotated spheres on the edge of a circle (radius = major radius of the 
media torus), only selected if visible in image, and moved outside of 
the plane by a random gaussian distribution;

Total render time of this image is about 5 minutes (only read). Writing 
the positions first takes a couple of minutes more.

I am quite satisfied of what I achieved. Comments appreciated at this stage.

Thomas


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 17 Dec 2014 07:39:03
Message: <54917967@news.povray.org>
But this is even better I guess :-)

Again, a few fundamental changes make all the difference.

Thomas


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From: Cousin Ricky
Subject: Re: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 17 Dec 2014 12:50:00
Message: <web.5491c1378524ac4b85de7b680@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
> But this is even better I guess :-)
>
> Again, a few fundamental changes make all the difference.

Oh yes, this is much better!


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Playing with Milkyways
Date: 18 Dec 2014 03:01:42
Message: <549289e6$1@news.povray.org>
On 17-12-2014 18:45, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> But this is even better I guess :-)
>>
>> Again, a few fundamental changes make all the difference.
>
> Oh yes, this is much better!
>
>
I think it is a matter of taste but both last images are interesting in 
their own way.

That said, I am more or less at the end of my capacities now.

Thomas


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