I actually developed these trees very early.  I downloaded an animation off
of AOL that was a walk through a forest.  The trees for that were cones on
cylinders... I made them multi-cones on cone trunks with clear spots in the
texture.  I've played with this texture for 4 years now... still haven't
gotten something I like.

The other problem is the rand function in POV is too regular.  If you create
a set of random objects in a 50x50 area, and look at them from above, they
come out looking like a 50x50 box with mostly evenly placed objects.  I'd
like to have the objects truely randomly placed in the box such that some
areas were denser than others, leaving clearings etc.

Haven't found a way to do this yet.  This would also help when generating
tree-parts or vines for buildings in that the clear spaces would be openings
in the branches or exposed wall sections.

If anyone has a way to get this to happen in POV I'd surely like to have it.

Robert.
aka cas### [at] aolcom

Greg M. Johnson <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
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> Thanks for expanding my vision. I must relate my shock (and strong
> *appreciation*) at seeing trees of the kind of construction you used. I
used a
> similar method in my first IRTC entry, and was frankly way too
thin-skinned
> about how it fared.  The message droned into my head over the years was
"cool &
> stylistic: BAD."  This is no fault of anyone but my own, but goes to show
how
> one can retreat from a useful style for the wrong reasons--I need to
unlearn
> what I've been learning.   I often wonder what I would be producing if I'd
> waited much longer before submitting stuff to the IRTC.
>
>

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