POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : A question about blobs : Re: A question about blobs Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:18:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A question about blobs  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 2 Jul 2000 11:21:51
Message: <395F5D4B.319AABFB@attglobal.net>
Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> >Any ideas?  More blobs?  Bigger radii?  Stronger values?
> 
> Less blobs, larger radius, smaller strength, greater threshold. That's
> how I solved the problem when it arose yesterday during the creation
> of the twisted torus thingy. Basically, the lower the threshold and
> the greater the strength, the less likely are the components to 'blob'
> together and the more liable they are to jagging. Vice versa, when
> they are of smaller strength (therefore requiring a larger radius to
> compensate for that) and the threshold is higher, more components'
> contributions are needed to overcome the threshold, causing them to
> blob together.

Makes sense.  I'll give it a try.

> 
> I hope I made this clear enough, it's a little past 7 am and I am not
> used to getting up so early so please forgive any oddities.

That's alright.  I, too, was up at the crack of dawn (so to speak!). 
Jacques Villeneuve finally has a racecar!  Yay!


> 
> Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
> Personal e-mail : pet### [at] usanet
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