POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : IRTC WIP : Re: IRTC WIP Server Time
13 Aug 2024 11:21:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: IRTC WIP  
From: Tyler Eaves
Date: 27 Mar 2003 12:00:41
Message: <3e832e39@news.povray.org>
Marc Jacquier wrote:

> 

> 3e81e28e@news.povray.org...
>>
>> Well, a little explanation might be in order.
>>
>> My concept with this image is of a lighthouse that was damaged many years
>> ago by some sort of storm. (Thus was many bricks are 'missing')
> I mean bricks are missing on the ground. I didn't count them but there is
> not the count.
> If they fell a long some time ago, the can have been taken away I agree
> but as we can see some still falling, the damage can't be that ancient.

Huh? Sure, are a few aren't laying quite on the ground, but I'm gonna weeds 
or something there to make it look plausible.

> 
>>The walls  probably are a bit thin. Shouldn't be a big deal to change. I'm
> using a
>> Python script to generate the bricks (All 50k of them! - Almost 11MB of
> pov
>> code)
> 
> Nice! I was wondering if it was a pov macro
> 
>It is, in a way. It was originally, and the python code is practically a 
direct port of the pov code, but the pov code was just slow, and it's 
wasteful to regenerate the whole thing every time. 
> Marc


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