On 03/22/2013 12:09 AM, Anthony D. Baye wrote:
> James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
>> On 03/21/2013 10:48 AM, James Holsenback wrote:
>>> On 03/21/2013 10:33 AM, James Holsenback wrote:
>>>> wondering about what's going on here with this series of images. the
>>>> radiosity and area light settings are unchanged from image to image, and
>>>> all I did was radiosity on/off and area_light on/off (btw: using rad_def
>>>> "Normal" settings)
>>>>
>>>> the 1st image is radiosity only, the 2nd is area light only, and the 3rd
>>>> combines them:
>>>>
>>>> what's up with blotches? change #5819/5820 (octree) or maybe something
>>>> still with area lights?
>>>
>>> OK ... turning area_illumination off got rid of the blotches!
>>
>> Here's a 1st pass beauty run ... radiosity + area_light - area_illumination
>>
>> BTW: I /really/ have to figure out how to cut some holes in the outer
>> object where the inner object passes through ... they /were/ bezier
>> curves (extruded and beveled) and converted to mesh, then I used taper
>> modifier on the outer and simple z axis (blender up in this case)
>> deformation on the inner object to get the peak in the middle.
>
> I love it.
>
> Source please?
>
> Regards,
> A.D.B.
>

Thanks .... there isn't really any source other than the environment, 
the objects are blender models.

Here's a different version where I managed to get it looking like the 
inner cycloid is threaded through the outer.

It turned out it was easier to get povray to do the CSG, instead of 
doing it in blender ... first I just exported the two objects then did 
povray difference, then I exported just a slightly smaller 
(extrude/bevel /not/ scale ) version of the inner object, and used union.

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