the download link was broken :-(


Andrew Woodfin wrote:
> 
> I'm about to work on supportng blobs and meshes, and yeah, I've also thought "why
> not just use a height field?" But it seems like with
> blobs you could get something a little more organic looking. My hope is to come up
> with something that might be able to convert 2D
> images back into something like 3D representations, say with faces and figures.
> Problem is, what is POV-Ray going to say when I give it 7,000 blobs?!
> It can already change height according to color, this is most pronounced with
> cylinders as the objects. It turns out looking somewhat
> like those beds of pins you see in toy stores that can record an impression of,
> e.g., your face or hand. The result of this is pictured
> below, with the original image in the corner.
> You can get the "latest version" of TGAMosaic from www.coe.uncc.edu/~adwoodfi and
> see a few more results with it. The page needs to cleaned up a little bit, and I
> have quite a few other weirder looking outputs that need to be posted.
> 
> Andy
> 
> Spider wrote:
> 
> > Something is wrong with my reader and I can't reply to that thread. sO I started
> > this .
> >
> > I have to say that theese look interesting, and may come in handy. Does it
> > support blobs or traces, or mesh??
> > Just wondered like this :
> > can it find pixels in the surroundings of the same colour, and "link" together
> > in a blob, or make the height differ depending on colour?
> > and, can it make a mesh out of an image(yeah, I know, use a HF)
> >
> > And, where did you say I could get a copy ?
> >
> > --
> > //Spider
> >         [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
> > What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
> >                 "Marian"
> >         By: "Sisters Of Mercy"
> 
> --
> 
> --------------------
> "There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches.
> How do they smoke??"
>   -The Riddler
> 
> Andrew Woodfin
> UNC Charlotte Center for Precision Metrology
> adw### [at] unccedu | http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~adwoodfi
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> 
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>  [Image]

-- 
//Spider
        [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
                "Marian"
        By: "Sisters Of Mercy"

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