POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : blob2 : Re: blob2 patch now available Server Time
3 Jul 2024 01:19:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: blob2 patch now available  
From: Wolfgang Wieser
Date: 25 Jul 2003 05:03:10
Message: <3f20f24e@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff wrote:
> The problem is that it has non-0 second derivative when distance/radius
> equals 0, which is at the very edges of the blob components where the
> function gets chopped off. Because of this, while the surface is
> continuous, it has abrupt changes in curvature. 
>
That's what I mean -- these "abrupt changes in curvature" when looking 
at the blobs. It needs to get fixed. 

> 6*r^5 - 15*r^4 + 10*r^3
> 
> with r = distance/radius in the first equation. It has a second
> derivative which is 0 at r = 1, and seems to give a more fluid, less
> chunky looking shape as well. 
>
I see. Thanks for pointing that out. 

Wolfgang


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