Oh yeah, the reason I intersected a height_field with a sphere was to 
avoid the extra-long render times associated with many partially 
transparent objects. This scene contains 364 objects.

Samuel Benge wrote:

> Okay, Netscape pulled a fast one here... I did have text with that image!
> Anyways... playing with The Gimp I found the wonderful IFS Composer. I 
> decided to try any make leaves out of the resulting image. Isosurfaces 
> were too slow, so I tried intersecting a sphere with a height_field 
> created with the IFS image. Here is the result my efforts. The leaf 
> branches have too little detail, but I think it's a fairly good start. 
> It takes very little time to render when no aa and area_lights are used. 
> I used both here. Questions, comments?
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> Samuel Benge wrote:
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