Tek <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote:

> Geoff Wedig <wed### [at] darwinepbicwruedu> wrote in message
> news:3b6022eb@news.povray.org...
>> Beautiful.  The left edge looks a little strange near the bottom.  Not
>> certain what's going on with that.  The bottom edge also looks somewhat
>> abrupt.  Flat is ok, but it's awfully solid, I think.  How did you get the
>> top to be fluffy like that?  Can you give some hints as to what kind of iso
>> you used?

> Well, it will probably be used in my next IRTC entry, which will have full
> source. I'm hesitant to say too much more than that (not wanting to give away my
> secrets!), but the fluffyness comes from bozo with turbulence of 4.

Ok, I'll forgive you, although I will say that I'm probably not entering
this round, and if I do, I won't use any clouds (since I know what my image
would be) so you'd be safe emailing it to me. ;)

> You're right about the bottom edge, the various isosurface functions don't quite
> work together at that point, and it seems to curve up. I'm sure I can fix it
> with a bit of fiddling :). The fact that it looks so solid is intentional,
> that's what the clouds looked like that day when I was driving home from work.
> It's also how fantasy clouds look to me.

Yeah, I've seen clouds that solid, though not often.  

Geoff

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