A cool wallpaper for this Christmas
;-)
Paolo

 >MessyBlob  on date 11/04/2009 00:47 wrote:
> I'm having a think about how best to do plasma globes. I have a few ideas in the
> pipeline, but here's a relatively simple way of getting most of the way there: a
> density function in media.
> 
> This scene uses a macro that creates a plasma globe, which is called inside
> loops to create the array of pillars and globes.
> 
> The pillars use a macro that scales the f_rounded_box isosurface function to
> allow it to be used with any size of radius and box (not just the 0..1 range
> allowed by the function by default). I might post that macro at a later date,
> as it removes the unexpected behaviours of the standard function.
> 
> I'm currently working on a way of generating the glowing filaments (core to
> shell), and will post some examples of this at a later date. In the meantime,
> here's the media example...
> 
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