Apache said:

What's with the size of this post?

Bill replies:
        Sorry it was so big.  It was three images; I should have sent
them separately.
        My apologies.

Dennis Miller said:

I like what's going on there. I did something vaguely similar to one of
your
shapes with an isosurfaces that had several morphing functions, one of
which
was 3d noise. What was your approach?

Bill replies:
Thank you very much.
We are inside a single hollow blob composed of 12 "while spirals" of
spheres. Each spiral is more or less planar on one axis, rotating on the
other axis, passing through other spirals and blobbing all the way.
Camera is stationary, looking at the terminus of the one spiral that
doesn't move, fighting desperately to exist in a swarm of strength-angst
entropy.

Andrew Coppin said:

Very nice concept... I like the colours too. I'd certainly be interested
to
see what the animation looks like...

Andrew.

PS. What's with the speckly bits? Is that deliberate, or is it some kind
of
render artifact?

Bill replies:
Thank you very much.
The colors took a long time.  It looks totally different from outside
the blob.
The animation is a study, so it's just point a to point b.  I hope to
have a website up soon, so I'll let you all know when you can see it.
My goal is a space ship sequence with some hyperspace travel and some
planetary touring, but I'm on a two-year digression trying to make
hyperspace interesting.  This animation is part of that digression.
The speckles vex me.  I speculate (ahem) that they occur in places where
blobbing makes the surfaces less than one pixel thick (he says,
expecting titters from those more mathematically blob-lucid).  Any help
on that?

Thank you all for your kind words.

Bill

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