POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Parsing-Intensive Furball : Re: Parsing-Intensive Furball Server Time
14 Aug 2024 20:22:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Parsing-Intensive Furball  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 12 Sep 2002 10:02:10
Message: <3D809E60.124EB139@gmx.de>
Tim Nikias wrote:
> 
> What you see are 250 strands of hair.
> 
> The base-positions for these were generated using
> the electrostatic-repulsion algorithm I implemented
> some days ago.
> 
> Each hair uses 15 nodes, which are connected with
> springs. Calculating the forces, gravity, hair-strength
> etc required approximately 25*50=1250 iterations
> to get to this state.
> 
> The calculation for this kind of furball is only worth it
> if hair has to lie on the floor and needs to stay
> out of other objects, otherwise the faster and simpler
> algorithm I used in former images is sufficient...
> 
> Comments?

Nice, does it have collision detection between the hairs?

Christoph

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