Tom Melly wrote:

> "Yadgar" <j.b### [at] ndhnet> wrote in message news:3A5### [at] ndhnet...
>
> No comments? Well, it happens (you post, you check back every few hours,
> your post just sits there uncommented and unnoticed, you wonder why everyone
> hates you, you start to drink, your wife leaves you, your dog leaves you,
> your mother pretends she doesn't know who you are....).
>
> As to the image, the main problem at first glance is the hardness of the
> edges of your spots. Try using a more gradual transition at the boundaries -
> i.e.
>
> not [0.70 A_Colour][0.70 Transparent]
> but [[0.65 A_Colour][0.75 Transparent]
>
> I like the main pigment, but the spots, to be honest, are fairly hideous at
> the moment.
>
> In the end, I would have thought that you would need a lot more interaction
> between your bands and your spots - are you sure that warps can't help you?
> I don't think I've ever used them myself, but they sound perfect for this
> kind of thing.
>
> If that fails, I guess it's time for an iso-pigment.

I agree I make a post, and no one seems to care, except sometimes the people who
seem to comment on everything.  Really aren't  many of us posting just for a
sense that somebody cares.  If say you show an incredibly well rendered sphere
with a simple background to a family member you share your house with they might
so "ok", but they won't, can't understand the significance of it.  They don't
know that the texture was really hard to do, and took you hours or days to
perfect, and they won't try to understand either.  Here though things are
different, if we can't figure out how you did it in our heads it is impressive.
I am going to start responding to more posts, and I hope people respond to my
bad posts too.

Well I also agree that the spots are not very good yet.  Basically you are
trying to model a hurricane larger than the Earth.  I have read about computer
models of tornados, and they are very complicated.  Maybe you can use a fractal
like a mandlebrot set.  Or a slice of a julia set made out of media.  Fractals
are inherently infinitely complicated.

Dan Johnson

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