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28 Mar 2024 09:11:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: L-Systems in Povray  
From: Droj
Date: 27 May 2023 08:25:00
Message: <web.6471f645453cebfcce6a8c8d3b2af915@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Droj" <803### [at] drojde> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I still wonder why L-Systems or turtle graphics never really made it to be
> > intergrated in Povray.
>
> You can wonder about a lot of things along with the rest of us, but the short
> answer is that it's an open-source ray-tracer, and what winds up in the source
> code is the result of the people who do the coding and work behind the scenes on
> the Dev Team.
>
> I would guess that most of that is focused on doing the actual ray-tracing, and
> less about adding new types of things to ray-trace.
>
> > Paolo Gibellini created an awsome macro to do so, although his macro is
> > restricted to 2D. And I guess he is waiting for someone to take it to 3D.
> >
> > I saw a bunch of images from Colin Fleming based on Lparser by Laurens Lapre - a
> > MS DOS program from times long gone by - but still interesting.
>
> Well - that's how we are left to do things that aren't integrated into the
> source code - macros or straight scene or include files.
>
> > But I guess most of the guys here are playing around with fancy things like mesh
> > camera, coding macros which no ordinary user can follow (Voronoi).
>
> I suppose mesh camera seems fancy - like many things - at first.  The Voronoi
> thing, at it's root - is nothing very fancy at all.   Trying to get it to be a
> full-color, infinite, tileable pattern, implemented as a function - was more
> working out a series of inspirations.
>
> > Making Povray more sophisticated and specialised does not mean make it better.
> > Only making it better for a small group of specialists not for public.
>
> We haven't changed POV-Ray one iota.   We're _using_ it.
>
>  - BE

Thanks BE for enlightening me.

Sometimes my stubborn brain is running wild.

I have a high esteem for all of you who are developing Povray further.

So take my apologies if I stepped on someones toe. I did not mean to offend
anybody.

regards - Oswald


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