"Tony[B]" <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote in message
news:3b01c549@news.povray.org...
> Well, here it is, after 2 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes and 34 seconds. It
uses
> 50 samples for the focal blur, besides the photons and the heavy
> max_trace_level, and the machine was being used for other things, so I
think
> that time is justified. This was meant to be a quick test-render for the
> final version, but I think it still needs work.

I'd have to get out my magnifying glass to see this well enough in this
1400x1050 res. LCD.  About 2.7 days huh? Wow, were it not for the better
renders this sort of thing would be pitiful.  Sigh.

> I was wondering if
> anyone can tell me how you would do the pointy triangles of the crown. I
> think making it out of a couple thousand (<17k) spheres in a blob {} is a
> bad idea, isn't it? :\ Maybe an isosurface can do this just as well, or
some
> fancy CSG. We'll see. Thanks in advance for all comments and suggestions.
:)

Well to do the queens crown what I did was to simply CSG difference spheres
from a upside-down cone, while looped in a circle of course.  The central
part was refilled with another sphere so that was covered up.  Then I added
sphere atop the points.  Works fine as seen from a distance, probably not
something to view extremely close.

Bob H.

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