"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> Alongisde working on a 'before-and-after' image, I've also found time to
> develop another CGSphere idea. It's got sufficiently pretty to post, so
> here it is!
>
> This rendered in 1.5 hours on my macbook, thanks to the use of my 
> mesh-based
> textured-brick macro (which I'll also post properly at some point in the
> near future). The bricks are selected at random from a small array of
> predefined bricks and rotated randomly to increase their apparent
> diversity. The macro arose from my dissatisfaction with the render speed 
> of
> normals with radiosity, and the fact that I never worked out how to make a
> rounded box with isosurfaces.
>
> I think I'll be adding some loose bricks to add to the entropy, then maybe
> some patches of sand on the floor and possibly a small human looking up at
> it.
>


I love it!
I have a bias towards the simple things in life :-)  This is one.

Thomas

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