Thomas Willhalm wrote:
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> 
> You can however add some turbulence to the function. This can result
> in hairs that point in different direction at different regions of the
> workpiece. Of course, you could also use a non-random function to
> change the direction.

Yes, that's basically what I meant - hairs not pointing straight up from
the surface normal. Also, how controllable is the shape of these hairs -
can they be bent etc? I did a quick search, but I couldn't find the paper
you mentioned. Could you provide a link to it?

> 
> > And how long does it take to render?
> 
> Between 8 and 17 minutes with a "336 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-II" CPU.
> The memory consumption is quite low. POV-Ray reports about 100 KB.
> 

Well, I recently hit 450MB memory usage (250,000 objects - 50,000 hairs)
and a 2h/17h parse/render. So you most definitely have a superior method
in this respect.

Margus

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