How about a way to specify the falloff rate of blobs? Something like the
light fading. This might make some interesting shapes.

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Chris Huff <Chr### [at] compuservecom> wrote:
> How about a way to specify the falloff rate of blobs? Something like the
> light fading. This might make some interesting shapes.

Must admit that it would be kind of neet but I don't think it's possible
since povray solves the blob intersection with an equation rather than with
marchingcubes or recusive subdivision. I think the later one should be
implemented in the future though. It works the same as the isosurface patch
but with a special blob feature and would allow us to use toruses and some
other objects as blobs.

/Anders

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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:25:40 +0200, "Anders Haglund"
<and### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>Chris Huff <Chr### [at] compuservecom> wrote:
>> How about a way to specify the falloff rate of blobs? Something like the
>> light fading. This might make some interesting shapes.
>
>Must admit that it would be kind of neet but I don't think it's possible
>since povray solves the blob intersection with an equation rather than with
>marchingcubes or recusive subdivision.

Then might it be possible to add some new parameters and a perhaps a
little extra complexity to the equation to allow for more options?

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Glen Berry
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