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  Re: sPatch advice: this man too ugly to let live? (25 kbbu).  
From: Josh English
Date: 27 Jul 2000 14:57:50
Message: <39808686.A640407E@spiritone.com>
Lug lift box. Lug drop box. Lug open door. Lug tear door of hinge. Oops.

Nothing wrong with that face, it just has a personality that you might not
want, but it is a fine caricature.

Josh

"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:

> Consider the following screen capture of an attempt to model a head in
> sPatch. I probably used a somewhat unorthodox approach, in that I
> started with a flat 12 x 12 grid of patches and tweaked and tweaked
> until I got this far. Can some sPatch experts give me advice on what's
> the ultimate destiny of such an approach:
>
> 1) Actually not that bad now; if export to povray now and with 15
> manhours of TEXTURING it will fool experts as being a photo;
>
> 2) Doomed to failure because the patches in no way conform to known
> facial contours;
>
> 3) Shows good hope, with perhaps another 15 manhours of tweaking, will
> look cool cartoony 3D, if not photorealistic.
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

--
Josh English -- Lexiphanic Lethomaniac
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