POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : creepy figures : Re: creepy figures Server Time
17 May 2024 21:40:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: creepy figures  
From: Norbert Kern
Date: 11 Feb 2018 11:50:03
Message: <web.5a8073492200fd9ec80f56880@news.povray.org>
Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:

> This is... creepy! Very well done indeed. I need to ponder the method:
> you choose a random point /on/ the mesh surface, then, from that random
> point, you traced /inside/ the mesh to the opposite side I suppose, but
> in what direction? randomly? along the surface normal at that point? I
> am a bit lost I confess.
>
> --
> Thomas

I used the surface normal.
A test file was uploaded to pbs-f.

But - it's not very fast...

I included a method for using the method for spikes a la Gormley.


Norbert


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