Hey Yadgar
I adapted Tim Nikias' macro to your fractal, and it worked for every level i
tried it for.
I then ran a few timed tests just to see which method worked the best.
It turns out that all 3 ran for the same length of time.
The only glitch was the too many nested objects problem with your method.
Of all 3 methods, Tim's is by far the easiest to read write and maintain.

Thanks to you both, this has been quite enlightening.

K
PS
sorry for the reply to your email (oops)

"Yadgar" <yad### [at] tiscalinetde> wrote in message
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> High!
>
> Tim Nikias schrieb:
>
> > Nice and interesting images.
> >
> > Your nesting problem... I don't get the problem.
>
> See the posted code for both algorithms in p.b.s-f. ...
>
> >
> >
> > I did something similiar to this a while ago, I've attached the
outcome...
> >
> > All I did was to write a macro, which divides a cube into a 3x3 Grid.
> > It places a superellipsoid in the corners and then calls itself
> > again with the middle-section as new cubes.
> > So, recursively, the cube is divided, superellipsoids are placed, and
> > we move in further and further.
> > It's a pretty simple macro, but I guess something like that, along with
> > some more #if-#else-#end, would do the job. Random-Stream may be
> > used freely etc, just the implementation requires a little thought.
> >
> > I'm not sure how you did your images, what you are actually willing
> > to achieve, so maybe my approach is not suitable to your project.
>
> No, it isn't... as your superellipsoids don't intersect anywhere, unlike
in my
> scene, where always one out of eight cubes is
> hidden inside the cube of the previous iteration! But on the other hand,
even
> when I programmed an exeption for this one
> cube (i. e. not to render it at all), I still got this mean "Too many
nested
> objects" when trying to render more than four
> iterations deep!
>
> I also programmed a scene with spheres who did not intersect at all - and
then
> it was no problem to render, let's say five
> iterations...
>
>
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> >  [Image]
>
> You clearly ran me out... this cries for revenge!
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Now playing: I love the Night [The Ecstasy of Flight] (Chris de Burgh)
>

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