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From: Samuel Benge
Date: 13 Jul 2002 22:43:14
Message: <3D30E53D.3040609@caltel.com>
Bill DeWitt wrote:

> 
>     I've rendered several different forms, including an animation of the
> construction phase of a rather simplistic one.


Do you have an mpeg for us to see? :)

>Maybe after I finish the wall
> paper sized version of your isosurface I'm doing, I will re-run one of
> those. Because, of course, I just finished erasing most of my renders last
> week to make room on my HD.


Um, you did do a test render first, right? I noticed the code I posted 
doesn't produce the exact same image.. but it's very close <shrug> You 
might also want to take the functions through the loop a few more times 
for extra detail.

 
>     The problem with rendering Dyson spheres is that at the distance needed
> to see any significant fraction of the object, all detail is gone.


That's when you focus on the foreground and let everything alse blur into the

distance. :)


-- 
Samuel Benge

sbe### [at] caltelcom


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