PM 2Ring wrote:
> povray <pov### [at] almostbestwebnet> wrote:
> 
>>>>>>I picture something like ... defining 12 different rock shapes.
>>>>>>Then, whenever you place a rock, randomly pick which of the 12
>>>>>>pre-defined rock shapes to place.  Rotate it randomly y before
>>>>>>placing it.  As each one is placed, randomly texture it.
>>
>>  http://www.deviantart.com/view/23117961/
> 
> 
> Nice, but think this machine would be thrashing the swap file with that
> scene, povray!
> 

Heheh: your machine must be even older than mine.  ;)

> I don't know if those lobe-shaped stones look real though... and what are

After posting it I kind of think they look like cookies.  :D
Mmmmmmm.  :)
Still, now you get the idea what what I was originally talking
about.

> those strange speckled patches on the sand? Totally transparent stones,
> coincident with the ground, maybe? I suppose both of these effects could be
> intentional.. the lobed stones remind my of an X-files episode, where
> Mulder finds a pair of intersecting coins.
> 

I kinda threw the file together quickly.  I arbitrarily took the
first 40 or so textures from stones1.icn without even looking at
them.  That transparent speckle texture is one of the textures in
stones1.inc.

> I've worked out how easy it is to place my IsoStones on an isosurface, but I
> haven't got the look quite right yet.
> 

Keep at it.  You'll get there.  :)

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