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8 Aug 2024 04:05:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: NIagara WIP Fife Rail (80k)  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 29 Sep 2005 03:23:48
Message: <433b9684@news.povray.org>
"David El Tom" <dav### [at] t-onlinede> schreef in bericht
news:433aeb06$1@news.povray.org...
>
> amazing work,...
> even though on the second look the coils seems to penetrate each other
> which would end up in an gordian knot :-)
> I don't have a clue how to avoid this in a simple fashion.
> Maybe you can get the extents of the allready existing coils and use
> them as "forbidden volumes" while generating each coil after another.
>

It is amazing work indeed!! Very well done! The ropes look very real.
The interpenetration is not so severe, I believe, and may only really show
up on close scrutiny. In most scenes that wouldn't be the case.

Thomas


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