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2 Nov 2024 16:56:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Isosurface Landscape 2 (71k)  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 4 Sep 2000 13:34:22
Message: <39B3DD55.C6E871B8@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de>
CreeD wrote:
> 
> That's impressive stuff.  The plants don't look bad at all, although maybe
> they could be scaled a bit smaller? Anyway maybe that macro that determines
> the height at a particular point could be applied to the plants to make
> them not float.  (HF_Height_At or something?  I've never used it).  Maybe
> it'd just add hours to the render.  Still, it's a shame it takes so long
> that it will never be given the full treatment.  I've never seen any
> attempt at desert mesas come so close to looking realistic.  Find a friend
> with a huge, expensive computer.

Placing the single plants individually would be a solution, but it would need a
lot of memory placing them all the way to the horizon (that would be at least
several thousand objects)

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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