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  Re: Particle System Test (>920kb)  
From: Ian Burgmyer
Date: 18 Jun 2001 00:53:16
Message: <3b2d893c$1@news.povray.org>
"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote in message
news:3b2889bb@news.povray.org...
> > I like how the particles sort of "spill" over the edge.
> > That looks very cool.
>
> No special programming there - just a result of randomness...

Whoa, really?  Spiffy...!

> > My only complaint is that the water looks a little blobby,
> > but Tony probably would have killed you if there were
> > millions of blobs in there :-)
>
> He decided himself how many particles to use. He raised it from 10
particles
> per clock unit (which I had used in my tests) to 100 particles per clock
> unit.

Ah, I see.

> > How long did it take you to do this?
>
> TonyB said it took about a day to render. But if you're talking about
> creation time it's more difficult to say. The particle system is an
ongoing
> project for me that I've been working on for months. This animation in
> particular took a few days which was mainly used to create the heightfield
> and do test renders of the simulation.

A day to render?  I actually expected more :-)

-Ian


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