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clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
> Am 09.05.2018 um 14:27 schrieb Stephen:
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> > While I am at it and before I forget. Is there something in the Windoze
> > editor that gets confused when /* ... */ comments are nested?
> > Ctrl + ] doesn't always work as I expect.
> > But then that could be me. It so often is.
>
> While POV-Ray's parser allows comments to be nested, the 3rd party
> editor component isn't designed to accomodate for that.
>
> So for example,
>
> /*a/*b*/c*/
>
> to POV-Ray is a comment containing `a/*b*/c` (the portion `/*b*/` being
> a nested comment), while to the editor it is a comment containing `a/*b`
> (the `/*` being nothing special) followed by a separate `c*/` outside
> the comment.
Good, that eliminates one straw I was grasping at. :-)
Thanks for the quick reply.
Stephen
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jr <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> see message in p.b.utilities
Beautiful images.
Off-topic, I think the 'lemon slice' in your grenadine photo would look much
nicer if it used subsurface scattering (SSLT). That slice looks like a good
candidate for it.
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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
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> I have been playing with the spheresweep output. As I try to trace() a
> grass landscape with a path of flowers following a Hilbert Curve.
>
Those images are really nice.
Did you 'trace' all the green grass blades onto the object, or did you use some
other less-involved trick?
I love the 'fuzzy' look of the grass, in the more distant render; it looks like
the fuzz on a tennis ball; or maybe 'flocking.' At first, I thought it was an
interesting use of crand!
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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
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> ...Is there something in the Windoze
> editor that gets confused when /* ... */ comments are nested?
> Ctrl + ] doesn't always work as I expect.
> But then that could be me. It so often is.
>
Yeah, that can be annoying. If we're taking about the same thing(?), I wrote an
earlier post about it...
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.5a1ffb6a92f74a1989df8d30%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=422124&toff=50
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On 09/05/2018 21:13, Kenneth wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>>
>> I have been playing with the spheresweep output. As I try to trace() a
>> grass landscape with a path of flowers following a Hilbert Curve.
>>
>
> Those images are really nice.
>
Thank you.
> Did you 'trace' all the green grass blades onto the object, or did you use some
> other less-involved trick?
>
Every single one of them. If I remember correctly there are about 6
million grass blades on the total target heightfield area. At that
density of grass. The render time was about 8 minutes. Mostly parsing.
It really is a brute force method. One WIP had about 11E6 blades and I
was shutting down programs as the memory usage climbed.
The target could be anything. Here is a link to one I made in reply to a
friend who sent me a sarky cartoon.
*Rude word warning*
https://i.imgur.com/kvDzf4T.png
> I love the 'fuzzy' look of the grass, in the more distant render; it looks like
> the fuzz on a tennis ball; or maybe 'flocking.' At first, I thought it was an
> interesting use of crand!
>
Crand!
Crand? I like to think of myself as an animator. I never use crand. ;-)
The "look" is very dependant on the closeness of the view.
I'm going to try to plant flowers to make an image from a poster, next.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 09/05/2018 22:10, Kenneth wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>>
>> ...Is there something in the Windoze
>> editor that gets confused when /* ... */ comments are nested?
>> Ctrl + ] doesn't always work as I expect.
>> But then that could be me. It so often is.
>>
>
> Yeah, that can be annoying. If we're taking about the same thing(?), I wrote an
> earlier post about it...
>
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.5a1ffb6a92f74a1989df8d30%40news.povray.org%3E/?ttop=422124&toff=50
>
>
Yes, we are talking about the same thing. I don't know how I missed your
post. It would have saved me a few hours if I had known that it was a
known issue.
--
Regards
Stephen
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Le 18-05-09 à 16:07, Kenneth a écrit :
> jr <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> see message in p.b.utilities
>
> Beautiful images.
>
> Off-topic, I think the 'lemon slice' in your grenadine photo would look much
> nicer if it used subsurface scattering (SSLT). That slice looks like a good
> candidate for it.
>
>
>
That lemon slice, and the glass, is from the grenadine.pov that that you
can find in .../scenes/advanced/grenadine/grenadine.pov
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hi,
On 09/05/2018 21:07, Kenneth wrote:
> Beautiful images.
thanks. as Alain mentioned, the images are "hacked" scenes from the
distribution.
and glad you commented, because Bald Eagle wrote "This would work well
with Kenneth's "sideways heightfield" city building concept to make
shrubs or a hedge maze."
which got me thinking, not hedge - building. could your system be used
to "drape" a suitably scaled building shaped like in the attached
image*? 30+ floors, ideally.
jr.
* the script to convert a hilbert2d sphere_sweep to boxes is posted as a
follow up to the program, in p.b.utilities.
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jr <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
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> and glad you commented, because Bald Eagle wrote "This would work well
> with Kenneth's "sideways heightfield" city building concept to make
> shrubs or a hedge maze."
>
> which got me thinking, not hedge - building. could your system be used
> to "drape" a suitably scaled building shaped like in the attached
> image*? 30+ floors, ideally.
>
(I had to brush-up on my miniscule knowledge of Hilbert curves!)
Is this what you have in mind, as the general idea?
This test image doesn't actually use height_fields for the vertical building
faces; in fact, it's just a POV-Ray + Photoshop mock-up!
Like you, I've been thinking about how to use my HF idea to make buildings with
'indented' sections. Not particularly in the shape of Hilbert curves, but the
same general idea. *In theory*, it should be easy. The trick is to 'slice and
dice' (and then rotate) the many vertically-oriented HF faces so that they all
match up with no seams-- AND so that only full window sections are used. That
particular problem is apparent in this mock-up image: some of the windows are
cut off prematurely at the various building edges.
But it should be easy to do; I just haven't gotten to that stage yet. (Real life
keeps intruding.) Even a Hilbert-curve variety looks do-able; the equations for
that could be used in some way to do the proper slicing/dicing of the HFs.
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[shudder]
I do not want to imagine what it would be like to live in a building
like that! ;-)
--
Thomas
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