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4 Oct 2024 03:18:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Real fractal "cheese" (ie Sierpinski box)  
From: Anders Haglund
Date: 24 Apr 1999 20:41:39
Message: <372256b3.0@news.povray.org>
It's not made with CSG, it's just generated boxes. I made a CSG version too,
it parsed faster but the rendering was much slower.
As for the soft shadows I used a 4x4 non-adaptive area-light with a smal
amount of jitter.
I used a p2-266 to render the picture BTW.

/Anders

Margus Ramst wrote:
>You might be right... But if its constructed of tiny boxes then I'm having
>trouble visualizing their placement.
>
>Margus
>
>Thomas Lake wrote in message <37224F79.61D88FEF@home.com>...
>>I don't think its a CSG. I think it just uses a fractal formula to produce
>the
>>shape. the holes you see are a result of the fractal not CSGs. Though I
>could be
>>wrong, not knowing anything about fractals :-)
>>


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