POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Fourier series : Re: Fourier series Server Time
17 Aug 2024 08:22:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fourier series  
From: Slime
Date: 24 Oct 2001 02:44:32
Message: <3bd66350$1@news.povray.org>
Coooool.

- Slime
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"Anton Sherwood" <bro### [at] poboxcom> wrote in message
news:3BD65E8F.7A93C356@pobox.com...
> When I showed this image to my dad, he saw it as something flat, and
> took the colors within the ellipse to be the important part -- and was
> baffled that I said it had something to do with Fourier series!
>
> As usual, I used a shiny texture and a multicolored sky.  Rays within
> the tube bounce around and emerge at `random' angles, whence the chaos.
>
>
> Slime wrote:
> > I assume that as we look towards the back of the object, we see the
> > places where more terms have been added. So, as you added term after
> > term, how did you calculate the value "inbetween" the terms? linear
> > interpolation?
>
> Yes.  See the creases at the first few terms?
>
>
> > Is this a parametric object or a mesh?
> >
> > "Anton Sherwood" <bro### [at] poboxcom> wrote
> > > (It's a mesh with 360*180 vertices.)
>
>
> --
> Anton Sherwood


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