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  Re: Cigarette Smoke Test (304kbu)  
From: Rune
Date: 13 May 2002 11:25:33
Message: <3cdfdaed@news.povray.org>
Bill DeWitt wrote:
>     Well, as a non-smoker, I can't see why you would
> bother making cigarette smoke out of something so cool.

Err, thanks! ;)

Any ideas what else I could make it into?
[reading down further]
Ah, incense. Any other ideas, just so I have something more to choose
from? :)

> It misses some of the granularity that smoke
> sometimes has, but maybe that's the scale.

I can try to make it more grainy...

> And it seems to go chaotic very quickly. In a still
> room I would expect it to stream a little longer.

Hmm.

> What I would like to see is the kind of double spiral
> that incense in a still room sometimes makes... I've
> seen that go up 3-4 feet before almost exploding into
> turbulence.

As always, it difficult to precisely visualize for my inner eye what
something looks like from a written description, but I can give it a
try.

Anyway, I wonder what it is that causes the turbulence to happen in such
a sudden way...

Rune
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