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  Re: Tornado, cyclone, twister, whatever [~128KB Mpeg1]  
From: Mike Weber
Date: 19 Apr 2000 10:43:16
Message: <38fdc604$1@news.povray.org>
I liked it.  For one its not a space ship animation, and its convincing
enough to think of it as a tornado.

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Mike

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"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:38fdb9c4@news.povray.org...
> A quick demonstration of what I was able to turn the tornado.pov script
into, with
> plenty more effort  :-)  That is to say, I used a sphere_sweep for the
funnel after
> encountering MegaPov freeze-up when using a isosurface.  Something about
> the contact between it and a torus (the ground plume).  Even dropped the
torus for
> a simple sphere.  And the media had to be thoroughly tweaked of course.
> It takes some imagination to see it as anything close to realism but I
didn't make
> anything else for the scene so that doesn't help.  Plus it's fast, faster
than the real thing.
> Well, the up side is I think people will like it, so it probably isn't all
bad.
>
> Bob
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