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  Re: Dunes (64k jpg)  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 10 Aug 2008 04:06:43
Message: <489ea193$1@news.povray.org>
"stbenge" <THI### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:489e40de@news.povray.org...
>
> Actually, it's the preliminary result of an erosion setup I have going.
> The attached image shows what it can do so far. It still needs more work
> done to it before it can simulate sharp-edged "Alaska style" erosion.
>
> All I'm really doing is using trace() on a height_field and updating the
> vectors to correspond with the surface normal. The objects are cylinders
> which grow bigger the longer they are "alive."
>

Very neat! Shouldn't cones not be more appropriate than cylinders in this 
context?

Thomas


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