Finally I had this CSG-shape rendered in
glass and lit properly. The rendering was
about 36 hours on my 2GHz Athlon PC.

I'm struggling a bit with some curved
coincident surfaces.

Here's an image i posted earlier with the
same shape in it:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/13533/


Tor Olav

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Wow...

How did you do this using CSG?

Looks cool.

Fernando.

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Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto wrote:
> How did you do this using CSG?

Looks like some torii and spheres cleverly differenced
by either cones or cylinders or both.

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On 29 Apr 2003 06:53:01 -0400, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
> 
> Finally I had this CSG-shape rendered in
> glass and lit properly. The rendering was
> about 36 hours on my 2GHz Athlon PC.
> 
> I'm struggling a bit with some curved
> coincident surfaces.
> 
> Here's an image i posted earlier with the
> same shape in it:

That's beautiful, I've saved it to be used as a future desktop image. 

-- 
#local i=.1;#local I=(i/i)/i;#local l=(i+i)/i;#local ll=(I/i)/l;box{<-ll,
-((I/I)+l),-ll><ll,-l,ll>pigment{checker scale l}finish{ambient((I/l)/I)+
(l/I)}}sphere{<i-i,l-l,(I/l)>l/l pigment{rgb((I/l)/I)}finish{reflection((
I/l)/I)-(l/I)specular(I/l)/I}}light_source{<I-l,I+I,(I-l)/l>l/l} // Steve

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That's really nice. Simple but complicated at the same time (i.e. it would take
me ages to make something like that!).

It's on a black background, so what's it reflecting? Did you just put some
no_image objects in there to make the reflections look more glassy? :)

Any chance you could show us the source for that object?

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"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor_olav_kCURLYAhotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Finally I had this CSG-shape rendered in
> glass and lit properly. The rendering was
> about 36 hours on my 2GHz Athlon PC.
>
> I'm struggling a bit with some curved
> coincident surfaces.
>
> Here's an image i posted earlier with the
> same shape in it:
>
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/13533/
>
>
> Tor Olav
>
>

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"Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto" <fgd### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in 
news:3eaec1a6$1@news.povray.org:

> Wow...
> 
> How did you do this using CSG?
> 
> Looks cool.

Thank you.

It is made with CSG of spheres and tori. I made
a macro to do all the math and cutting work.

You can find it in the source code for the
"Fung_CSG" image at this page:

http://home.no/t-o-k/povray/

The name of the macro is BetweenTori().


Here is a cut-away view of the shape:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/13478/


I can try to explain more later this week if
you or anyone else are interested.


Tor Olav

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Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in news:3eaece60$1@news.povray.org:

> Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto wrote:
>> How did you do this using CSG?
> 
> Looks like some torii and spheres cleverly differenced
> by either cones or cylinders or both.

You are close, but although it seems that there
are cones and cylinders involved, there are none.

It only CSG with spheres and tori (and a plane).


Tor Olav

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Steve <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in 
news:slr### [at] zeroppsorguk:

> On 29 Apr 2003 06:53:01 -0400, Tor Olav Kristensen wrote:
>> 
>> Finally I had this CSG-shape rendered in
>> glass and lit properly. The rendering was
>> about 36 hours on my 2GHz Athlon PC.
>> 
>> I'm struggling a bit with some curved
>> coincident surfaces.
>> 
>> Here's an image i posted earlier with the
>> same shape in it:
> 
> That's beautiful, I've saved it to be used as a future desktop image. 

I'm glad you like it Steve.

If my PC gets unemployed for a longer period,
then I'll render and post a larger version of it.


Tor Olav

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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in news:3eaef239@news.povray.org:

> That's really nice. Simple but complicated at the same time (i.e. it
> would take me ages to make something like that!).
> 
> It's on a black background, so what's it reflecting? Did you just put
> some no_image objects in there to make the reflections look more
> glassy? :) 
> 
> Any chance you could show us the source for that object?

Thank you Tek.

The background is just two plain discs behind each
other. Apart from the object itself there are no
other objects in the scene. (There is of course a
light source to produce the highlit spot.)

The disc closest to the camera is black and covers
just the view of the camera.

The other disc is white and is placed right behind
the black one. It's radius is 10 times bigger.
(It can be replaced with an infinite plane.)

I hope that I can find time to clean up the code and
show it later this week.


Tor Olav

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I'm interested! If you've got the time, explain! :-)

Regards,
Tim

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>
> > Wow...
> >
> > How did you do this using CSG?
> >
> > Looks cool.
>
> Thank you.
>
> It is made with CSG of spheres and tori. I made
> a macro to do all the math and cutting work.
>
> You can find it in the source code for the
> "Fung_CSG" image at this page:
>
> http://home.no/t-o-k/povray/
>
> The name of the macro is BetweenTori().
>
>
> Here is a cut-away view of the shape:
>
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/13478/
>
>
> I can try to explain more later this week if
> you or anyone else are interested.
>
>
> Tor Olav

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