"Rune" <run### [at] mobilixnetdk> wrote in message
news:3ca51209@news.povray.org...
> "Bill DeWitt" wrote:
> >     I actually watched some grass this afternoon,
> > and my grass doesn't bend in the middle unless it
> > is a typhoon. It bends along it's whole length
> > somewhat.
>
> My simulated grass also bends along its whole length. Actually, it's just
a
> simple parabolic function. (In the last animation it was linear.) One side
> effect of the method used is that the blades get longer the more they
bend,
> but that's just one of the compromises of this simulated grass...

    Maybe that's it. It looked a little springy to me. And I think it really
bends too much, it almost looks like seagrass.

> > And in the size range of what you have, only one
> > gust would fit on the screen at the time.
>
> Hmm, ok. But won't it looks wrong if all the blades bend in the same way
at
> the same time? Maybe not...

    No, the gust would sweep across the view, and when one was partly off,
another would be partly on.

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