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  Re: Visualizing vector fields with a single isosurface  
From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Date: 31 Jan 2010 11:20:01
Message: <web.4b65ac53956d9fa6d6291f840@news.povray.org>
"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:
> Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> > Elegant. Is it faster than simply generating a heap of objects?
>
> Thank you. No, in most cases it will be slower.
>
> The attached image that shows something that can not be achieved
> by orienting and spreading around a lot of objeccts with loops.
>
>
> > It is probably more difficult to add some direction indicator.
>
> No, this can be done quite easily, but the rendering time will increase.

Here's an image with the bars made arrow shaped.
Doing it this way does not increase the rendering time significantly.

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Tor Olav
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