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From: Simon de Vet
Subject: Realistic planets
Date: 22 Jul 1999 16:53:58
Message: <379784EA.91EF8295@istar.ca>
I found this on a site, while looking for those voxel clouds mentioned
above.

http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_landsp.htm

I know nothing abut the POV code, so i could never do it, but it seems
to be a very simple process, with great results!

Anyone care to give it a try?

Simon
http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet


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From: ingo
Subject: Re: Realistic planets
Date: 22 Jul 1999 18:14:38
Message: <379797ce@news.povray.org>
Simon de Vet heeft geschreven in bericht <379784EA.91EF8295@istar.ca>...
>I found this on a site, while looking for those voxel clouds mentioned
>above.
>
>http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_landsp.htm
>
>I know nothing abut the POV code, so i could never do it, but it seems
>to be a very simple process, with great results!
>
>Anyone care to give it a try?


Tried it last weekend with random sphere / plane intersections and scaling. Ran
out of memory within 100 steps.

ingo


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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Realistic planets
Date: 22 Jul 1999 19:08:52
Message: <3797A48A.A3A6CD2C@compuserve.com>
I made a macro to do that. After a few iterations, the render time gets
unbearably slow. It is useless for POV, unless a mesh can be made
instead of using CSG.


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From: Doug Fortune
Subject: Re: Realistic planets
Date: 23 Jul 1999 01:51:37
Message: <379802D1.23C01F24@home.com>
Simon de Vet wrote:

> I found this on a site, while looking for those voxel clouds mentioned
> above.
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_landsp.htm

For a realistic planet near you (ie Earth),  please see my
announcement here 18 July 1999:

Free Earth Digital Elevation Data (for heightfields)
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~fortuned/dew.html

Regards,
Doug


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From: Arthur Flint
Subject: Re: Realistic planets
Date: 24 Jul 1999 00:07:19
Message: <37993CEC.5E9E5922@gci.net>
I have been working with POV Superpatch isosurfaces. From some
code that I picked up in the news groups here and have had some success
getting good-looking planets. I have the code as a macro file. If
your interested, post here. I have been having e-mail problems
so I would probably post that in povray.binaries.scene-files.
Mr. Art

Simon de Vet wrote:
> 
> I found this on a site, while looking for those voxel clouds mentioned
> above.
> 
> http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_landsp.htm
> 
> I know nothing abut the POV code, so i could never do it, but it seems
> to be a very simple process, with great results!
> 
> Anyone care to give it a try?
> 
> Simon
> http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet

-- 
Advanced means constantly wondering where reality gets its processing
power.


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