"Dave Matthews" <dma### [at] wrmnwestmnscuedu> wrote in message 
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> These are absolutely phenomenal, although I think that the lighting 
> obscures
> some of the incredible detail shown in your earlier oval box render.

Thanks.  I agree that it loses much of the detail of the oval boxes, 
unfortunately.  But I may create other scenes which do.  Relatively 
recently, I've been toying with the idea of creating a series of scenes, 
which many of the same objects, surroundings, etc.  Or maybe not.  I hate 
committing to anything.  :-)

> I
> think that sphere_sweeps are about the slowest rendering thing in all of
> POVRay, including isosurfaces (unless you have max_gradient cranked waaay
> up.)  Have you looked at Mike Willams' use of isosurfaces to generate a
> weave pattern (I haven't, so I'm not even sure whether it could be 
> modified
> for your use)?  In any event, it looks fantastic.
>

Do you have a link for the weave pattern?  In my case, I actually "wove" the 
sphere sweeps.  There are a few places where they intersect with the other 
sphere sweeps, but it's not too noticeable, especially in this case, where 
focal blur was used.  I must have been especially motivated when I did the 
chair seat.  I even used a sine function to get the proper "dip" in the 
seat.  I normally avoid anything more complex than multiplication.  (Well, 
it's true!)

-- 
Jeremy
www.beantoad.com

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