POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : IRTC Image Take Two : Re: IRTC Image Take Two Server Time
18 Aug 2024 20:12:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: IRTC Image Take Two  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 14 Mar 2001 19:06:01
Message: <3AB006B6.4FF755A5@videotron.ca>
Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> "Francois Labreque" <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote :
> >
> > I agree with Tom and you here, it doesn't work very well.  maybe if you
> > "reduced" the dimension of the area where this occurs.  You might want
> > to take a lookt at some real waterfalls such as:
> >
> > http://falls.net/picttour/pict2/pic9.html
> 
>     This shows what I was thinking, that his first image was more realistic,
> in that there is no real "sense of speed" at the edges of waterfalls.

Exactly.  Water is not viscous enough so that the free-falling water
"drags" the upstream water in.  Water at the very top of a water fall
will be flowing at the exact same speed it was 3 miles upstream
(provided the river bed size is constant).

> 
> > What?  You want US to do YOUR work, now?
> 
>     Maybe -that- is how he gets them done so quickly!

-- 
Francois Labreque | And a four year old carelessly banging on a toy
    flabreque     | piano is not only 'music', it's probably the last
        @         | moment of 'artistic purity' they'll ever enjoy
   videotron.ca   | before outside influences start corrupting their
                  | expression.    - Chris R.


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