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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscape net> wrote:
> I've only just gotten back in, and haven't worked it out in enough detail to
> understand exactly how all the parts work. I tried it with the "POVRAY"
> point set, got it to work, dabbled a bit more, and broke it again...
Everything used to generate the cells gets stored in arrays - try rendering
individual meshes to get a feel for the objects that go into the pigments.
What made me think of this method was a comment someone made in the other thread
that a field of cones could be used to generate a 2D voronoi field. My code uses
a 'depth' of 10, with 45-degree cones - the slice used by the function is just
above this y=-10 floor so tweaking might cause it to miss the objects.
The other thing I'm unsure about is how many arguments the max() function can
accept - this is probably the practical upper limit on the cell count.
> I'm wondering if there are other ways to control the colors of the cells - by
> height? by area?
In that snippet, the BrightFn is what I use to generate the cell value 0-1; a
pigment was the obvious choice, but you might be able to do something with the
stored meshes to generate a suitable function for area... basically anything
that could feasibly be encoded in a function.
> Very interested in your mortar idea.
I was referring to the custom 'standard' crackle that you demonstrated in your
post, using the min distance from a seed point to generate the color value. The
documentation even mentions using a solid crackle with a regular crackle layered
over it to generate mortar for the solid cells.
> Also wondering if the Delaunay triangulation can be done as well. Rendering
> the dual would be a cool effect.
No idea - this is a bit of a hack! I imagine triangulation could be done with an
SDL macro, and then the triangles could be colored however you want... but I
have no experience implementing Delaunay triangulation so I'm not sure.
> Great work, Bill - this was a very clever solution.
It was fun to think through! Now if only we could have iteration in user-defined
functions... :)
Bill
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