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4 Oct 2024 01:16:45 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fractal Ooze  
From: Rick (Kitty5)
Date: 30 Apr 1999 12:23:56
Message: <3729cb0c.0@news.povray.org>
Animate them!!!
do them rolling round or something, that would look really weird, these are
excellent!

Rick
Alex Vandiver <van### [at] tiacnet> wrote in message
news:37296E22.EE317082@tiac.net...
> With all of these fractals flying around, I decided to dig through a
> book I had lying around.  There's an interesting passage in the book,
> where it is discussing these figures, called 3d dragon curves, and I
> quote,
> "..he uses IBM's computer resources to plot a million or more points in
> three dimensions to generate a three-dimensional dragon curve.  He then
> runs a ray tracing program which determines the illumination of every
> point and the positioning of it on a two-dimensional display.  Needless
> to say, this is beyond the capability of our personal compters."
> The book is a little out of date, apparently.. (published in 1990)  I
> didn't quite use a million points, but I did use 1 out of every 5 of my
> 288000 calculated points.  57600 blobs still makes a pretty funky image,
> tho..
> -Alex V.
>
>


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